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The exercises you need to do to reach 100 in great shape

Health

The exercises you need to do to reach 100 in great shape

To be truly fit in older age, you need to work on specific aspects of your fitness – and research shows that it’s never too late to reap the benefits

Features

What’s the secret to living well beyond the average life expectancy?

Health

What’s the secret to living well beyond the average life expectancy?

Features

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

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

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

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

Space

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

Culture

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

Culture

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

Culture

Installation view of the gallery ?Michael Smith's Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar? in the exhibition

Comment

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Michael Smith's take on a fallout shelter

Culture

In the village of Tshabula, villagers search for cobalt and copper in the waste tailings dumped by the lorries of the Chinese company Commus, which extracts minerals from one of the town's largest open-cast mines.

Environment

Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

Features

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

Comment

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

The books, TV, games and more that Â鶹´«Ã½ staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

Culture

Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

Culture

Health

Why constipation isn’t just painful, but can lead to serious disease

Features

Comment

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

Culture

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