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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Feather Foiled Print

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Artist brings data to life in striking screen prints

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Doctors need to listen to the evidence about bed rest in pregnancy

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Doctors need to listen to the evidence about bed rest in pregnancy

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Complete terracotta prismoid, in octagonal form, eight columns of inscription, historical inscription of Tiglathpileser I, describing his campaigns and buildings. ? The Trustees of the British Museum

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Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform

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Ringworld

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Obstetrician gynaecologist taking blood sample from pregnant woman

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Blood test suggests preeclampsia risk using RNA

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Cocaine drug crystals.

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Experimental medication helps treat cocaine addiction

A recently developed medication encourages people with cocaine use disorder to reduce their intake of the stimulant – a step towards the first approved drugs to treat the problem

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Environment

Washed-up clothing mimics seaweed in stunning cyanotypes

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Pregnancy’s lasting effects on different parts of the body revealed

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Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

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Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

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