Life
Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage
New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale
Culture
Don’t miss: Predictive art, sci-fi comedy and the ownership of space
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Humans
Gamechanger: L. X. Beckett’s latest sci-fi novel lives up to its name
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Don’t miss: Body portraits, killer doubles and a stellar mind at work
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Humans
Bill Bryson’s new book celebrates the miraculous human body
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Life
Don’t miss: Computer collage, global gold and orbital capital
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Humans
The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot
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Environment
Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?
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Humans
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments’ anti-science world is a grim warning
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Mind
The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics
If you're struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get – even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas
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Humans
The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?
Features
Mind
How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions
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Life
This month’s top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts
Culture