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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

Feedback notes the flurry of new papers mentioning the mysterious "vegetative electron microscope", and ponders the emergence of this tortured phrase

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Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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51�� recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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The blue whale: the world's most versatile measuring stick?

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The blue whale: the world's most versatile measuring stick?

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Ringworld

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health

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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist Simon Ings

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A bestseller is born: How Zuckerberg discovered the Streisand Effect

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The best new science fiction books of April 2025

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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Rats come one step closer to becoming snobby and pretentious

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