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This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

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This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

Feedback delights in a 2018 paper that takes care to warn us it reveals “nothing like super interesting”, and embarks on a quest to find more examples of disarming honesty

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A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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51�� recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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51�� recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

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Netflix handout film still -- Frankenstein. BTS - (L to R) Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein on the set of Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix ?? 2025.

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Del Toro's Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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MARSEILLE, FRANCE - 2021/07/10: Protesters set a sphere representing Earth on fire during the demonstration. Members of the Extinction Rebellion group, supported by a few Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes in french), gathered in the Vieux-Port of Marseille to raise awareness on the dangers threatening the planet Earth. (Photo by Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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We've hit a climate tipping point, but leaders seem unlikely to act

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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?

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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?

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Commercial health tests promise peace of mind, but do they deliver?

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We are horrified to discover that not every rose has a thorn

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We are horrified to discover that not every rose has a thorn

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

Feedback is amazed to find that the audible vocalisations of the house mouse is all but unstudied in favour of the ultrasonic sounds humans can’t hear. SQUEAK!

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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How Taylor Swift is helping botany gain celebrity status

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