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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement when it was first published – and remains as crucial a read today, finds Rowan Hooper

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CXP17N Giant Anatomical Man model outside the Tate Modern London promoting Damient Hurst

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�鶹��ý recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

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Alice Roberts

Humans

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

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Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians

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Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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�鶹��ý recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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PERUGIA, ITALY - NOVEMBER 24: Amanda Knox (C) is led away from Perugia's court of Appeal by police officers after the first session of her appeal against her murder conviction on November 24, 2010 in Perugia, Italy. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder of Ms Knox's former British flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Their trial took place in December 2009 with Knox and Sollecito receiving sentences of 26 and 25 years respectively. Rudy Guede, an unemployed man from Ivory Coast, was also convicted of the Meredith Kercher's murder. The case is also forming the basis for a film currently being shot in Italy entitled 'The Amanda Knox Story', with American actress Hayden Panettiere cast as Amanda Knox. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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�鶹��ý recommends Turi King's expert book about DNA's secrets

From clearing people convicted of murder to identifying a monarch's remains, Michael Le Page is fascinated by The Secrets of Our DNA, an insider's must-read book

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The late Ian Watson's sci-fi The Embedding is intriguing – but dated

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Environment

Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images

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Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots

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Health

Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail

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