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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

The best new science fiction books of August 2025

31 July 2025

From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels
2T96G2H Harvesting shrimp in a shrimp farm in Loc An, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

30 July 2025

Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?
2YP7KC6 Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Pacific, Deep sea exploration 2025. Deep-sea mining, Deep Ocean Volcanoes

Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

30 July 2025

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials

Negative social ties, like frenemies, could be ageing you

25 July 2025

Having someone in your life who hassles you or causes problems could be adding 2.5 months to your biological age
Photo ? Steve Monks Lydia Bradey on the first female ascent of Zenith, Halfdome, Yosemite National Park

Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights

23 July 2025

Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

23 July 2025

A new information ecosystem is on the rise, featuring closer connections, cosy media and worker-owned websites, writes Annalee Newitz
2JHN167 HUGH JACKMAN, THE PRESTIGE, 2006

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

23 July 2025

Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige
Black hole illustrating Adam Roberts book Lake of Darkness

Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

18 July 2025

Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness sets out to be a utopia novel, but it could have easily been called Space Satan instead
A Caucasian leopard found in ?The Wild Ones,? premiering globally on 11 July 2025 on Apple TV+.

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

16 July 2025

The Wild Ones follows three experts out to capture video of species including the Gobi bear and the Javan rhinoceros. It is a heartwarming call to action
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)

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

16 July 2025

Lara Lewington's Hacking Humanity looks at the fabulous technology that is changing healthcare. But where is the critical analysis?

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