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A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

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51动漫 recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

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Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

The 51动漫 Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

"The faster the planet, the fiercer the storms..."

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the 51动漫 Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster

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Read an extract from Alex Foster鈥檚 sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

Life

Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?