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Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the story of a scholar hunting a great lost poem – which may have something to with climate change

Culture

Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Culture

2H4G74E Lisbon, Portugal. 2nd Nov, 2021. Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications of Meta (Facebook), Nick Clegg addresses the audience (via web transmission) at Altice Arena Centre Stage during the second day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon.This is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and also a meeting point for the debate on technological evolution in people's lives. This year, around 40.000 participants are expected to attend the Web Summit. (Credit Image: ? Hugo Amaral/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

Culture

Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

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Earth

The captivating story that Earth’s ‘boring’ layered rocks tell us

Culture

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Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

Culture

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Comment

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Culture

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Technology

New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

Culture

TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

Lara Lewington's Hacking Humanity looks at the fabulous technology that is changing healthcare. But where is the critical analysis?

Culture

Humans

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

Culture

Comment

The best popular science books of 2025 so far

Culture

Comment

The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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Life

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

Culture