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

9 July 2025

The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike

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A new book argues that revenge is an addiction – but doesn't convince

18 June 2025

Recovering "revenge addict" James Kimmel Jr. makes the case for retaliation to be understood as an addiction in new book The Science of Revenge. It's compelling, but doesn't quite add up

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A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

11 June 2025

How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores

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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

11 June 2025

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women

Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

14 May 2025

In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger zooms in on how parasites hijack the brains of their tiny host animals

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Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book

30 April 2025

We should protect Earth's rivers and forests with laws. But it is another matter to claim them as living beings, as Robert Macfarlane does in his new book Is a River Alive?

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Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

23 April 2025

Intertidal is Yuvan Aves's extraordinary, personal exploration of the rich wildlife offsetting the urbanity of Chennai, India. While its focus is a small strip of Indian coast, its issues are global

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Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

5 February 2025

In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life – and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings, finds Emily H. Wilson