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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group

Culture

Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

Video

Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

Culture

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Environment

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Culture

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

Comment

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

Culture

Tade Thompson

Video

Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

Video

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Physics

Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment

Culture

ARINGAY, PHILIPPINES - DECEMBER 01: Residents queue to receive a dose of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a rural village on December 01, 2021 in Aringay, La Union province, Philippines. The Philippines is rushing to vaccinate its population as it mulls making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory and amid the looming threat of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The country, which has just approved booster shots for its adult population, launched a three-day national vaccination holiday on November 29 to December 1 with the goal of vaccinating at least nine million additional people. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Health

Discover RNA's irresistible ascent from humble molecule to CRISPR star

Culture

ET6KG3 A Peregrine Falcon , Falco peregrinus, one of the worlds fastest birds

Life

The inside story of heroic efforts to save three bird species

Culture

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

Society

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

Culture

Members of the medical staff at the Elithair clinic conduct an artificial Intelligence analysis of Felix Hofmann's scalp and his hair roots.

Technology

A skilful primer makes sense of the mathematics beneath AI's hood

Anil Ananthaswamy's Why Machines Learn: The elegant maths behind modern AI explores the mechanics of the AI revolution, but doesn't examine its ethics

Culture

Mind

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends: Pixar's Inside Out 2

Culture

Mind

Nine profiles of neurodiverse people reveal rich and creative worlds

Culture

Comment

An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life

Culture

Comment

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends YouTube series Journey to the Microcosmos

Culture

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