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Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

Forget the tropes about how violence or maybe volcanic eruptions killed off our ancient cousins, The Last Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak offers a very different take on how they died out

Culture

New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Life

�鶹��ý recommends David Attenborough's Parenthood

Culture

BOSTON - OCTOBER 10: Harvard University Scientist Steven Pinker poses for a portrait in his office on October 10, 2005 in Boston, MA. (Photo by Jean-Christian Bourcart/Getty Images)

Mind

Steven Pinker’s new book shows how he’s become a contradictory figure

Culture

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Culture

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Space

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

Culture

Where the Wild Thoughts Are podcast

Mind

�鶹��ý recommends podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are

Culture

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

Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London, UK, on Monday, June 16, 2025. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang projected that Europe's artificial-intelligence computing capacity will increase by a factor of ten over the next two years, with more than 20 so-called AI factories in the works. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Technology

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

Culture

Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

When it was first published in 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer transformed sci-fi and instantly birthed the cyberpunk genre. Ahead of an upcoming TV adaptation, Emily H. Wilson revisits the prophetic novel to see if it stands the test of time

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Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

Culture

Mind

What can psychoanalysis teach us about love and heartbreak?

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Comment

�鶹��ý recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Comment

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

Culture