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Technology

New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers some answers

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TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Wolfgang Tillmans’s new exhibition in Paris

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A Caucasian leopard found in ?The Wild Ones,? premiering globally on 11 July 2025 on Apple TV+.

Life

New nature doc is a call to action to save six endangered species

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Cassian Bilton in "Foundation," premiering July 11, 2025 on Apple TV+.

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Foundation’s new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

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Humans

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

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Gen z friends make a TikTok video with a cell phone. The man is a LGBTQIA person and the female is a young woman living with alopecia. University students and friends

Technology

Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media’s baffling lingo

Culture

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Atmosphere

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Bryan Johnson in Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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The best new science fiction books of July 2025

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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