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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

We know fermented foods do us good, but the ZOE founder's new book still surprises with fascinating facts - and avoids feeling like an ad for his gut supplements, says Helen Thomson

Culture

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

Culture

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Physics

Even in our digital world, materials still matter

Leader

Digital artwork showing a lone human figure standing among jagged, glowing purple peaks that resemble an abstract mountain range, representing the hidden quantum landscape inside a solid.

Physics

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

Features

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

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

Culture

Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

Comment

Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

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

Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

News

Environment

Super-cool cement could stop buildings trapping heat inside

A new formulation of cement reflects and emits heat more effectively than normal Portland cement, so it stays much cooler on a hot day

News

Technology

Jacket that gets thinner when you sweat could help avoid overheating

News

Comment

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

Culture

Life

Do the bumps on a bell pepper reveal how sweet it will be? Er, no

Regulars

Comment

David Cronenberg's new sci-fi film is devastating and mysterious

Culture

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