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Cixin Liu, China’s megastar author: ‘People are comfortable. They don’t want any more progress’
With an adaptation of his novel The Three-Body Problem due soon on Netflix, the author tells us why he’s optimistic about the future
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Why penguins might live on Venus – and other surprising ideas about space
Chris Lintott’s Our Accidental Universe gives an anecdotal tour of the universe through eccentric observations and tantalising mysteries
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How Nixon rose from the dead to deliver a eulogy to astronauts
Could you be fooled by a deepfake of Nixon announcing death on the moon? A new installation examines how paranoia and AI is warping truth
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The scientist cracking DNA’s mysteries from aboard a luxury yacht
In his new book Microlands, J Craig Venter explains how he decodes DNA while sailing the world in style. No wonder his peers are envious
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is back, with 800 pages of mind-bending metaphysics
This sci-fi follow-up to The Morning Star teases at family secrets as it follows a 'hippy biologist' and a trainee undertaker
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How fear came to rule our lives
From the Black Death to Hong Kong, Robert Peckham’s Fear looks at how dread shaped history – but its bold scope is let down in the execution
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How the Earth became choked by dust – made worse by electric cars
Dust, an intriguing study by geographer Jay Owens, shows why particles of all kinds are both nature's salvation and its poison
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The man who looked at birds and grasped the secrets of the universe
Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021. His new memoir, In a Flight of Starlings, reveals the secrets behind his research
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Is maths colonialist? Or even real?
Eugenia Cheng’s new book wants us drop our childhood fear of mathematics – shame it wants us to discard our adult views of it too
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Think size isn’t everything? Listen to Bill Gates’s favourite writer
In Size, a new book from the Czech-Canadian analyst Vaclav Smil, humans expand and machines follow suit – but what’s the argument?
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The million-dollar poster-boy for schizophrenia – and how the system failed him
Michael Laudor was offered $1m for his life story, then stabbed his partner to death. Jonathan Rosen's The Best Minds tells his tragic story
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Milk: a fascinating history of our dependence on dairy
The Wellcome Collection’s exhibition about our complicated relationship with milk is uncomfortable but entertaining viewing
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Can we be good without God?
Humanly Possible, an epic, spine-tingling and persuasive work of history by Sarah Bakewell, traces 700 years of humanism
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'What on Earth do you mean?' – and other questions that changed philosophy forever
In his book A Terribly Serious Adventure, Nikhil Krishnan shines a light on the 'ordinary language' philosophers who shook up their field
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Seven inventions that changed the world – from magnets to springs
Roma Agrawal locates the wonder of engineering in the lively Nuts and Bolts. What a shame she also blunders into politics
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Are we all naturally migrants – and is the nation state doomed?
Our view has been warped because history was written by the homebodies, argues Sam Miller in his new book Migrants: The Story of Us All
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