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Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

Mind

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to the late, great Oliver Sacks

Culture

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

Culture

Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

Video

How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

Video

Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Chemistry

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie's knowledge of toxicology

Culture

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

Mind

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

Culture

2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

Culture

WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

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

Culture

Block of flats Description Block of flats during night time with many figures in the windows and symmetrical staircase on both sides lit in green

Society

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

Culture

1.5 Degrees Celsius is the magical border - after that, there's no going back. Fridays For Future, 20.09.2019 in Bonn, Germany

Mathematics

Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world

Culture

Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be

Culture

Comment

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Culture

Physics

Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

Culture

Comment

'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

Culture

Technology

This sci-fi debut is a quietly brilliant look at a disturbing future

Culture