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CECER9 Geothermal Power Facility

Environment

Hannah Ritchie’s new book on net zero is a breath of fresh air

Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff

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Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Horizon: Secrets of the brain

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

Space

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it’s surprisingly poignant

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A human brain made with golden wires

Mind

Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

Health

Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

Comment

Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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TOPSHOT - This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP) (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Mind

A terrifying book dissects the neuroscience of warfare

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A woman is holding a placard with a sanitary towel with fake blood, during the Women's March held in Amsterdam, on March 8th, 2020. (Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Health

Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic

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Space

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Chris Hadfield’s Final Orbit

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WAYWARD. (L to R) Sydney Topliffe as Abbie and Alyvia Alyn Lind as Leila in episode 101 of Wayward. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix ?? 2025

Disturbing Netflix mystery explores a world out to ‘solve’ adolescence

Set at a strange academy in small-town Vermont, Netflix’s Wayward aims to pacify unruly teens by master manipulation. Bethan Ackerley finds a creepy, troubled world

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Comment

The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

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Humans

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

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Mind

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

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