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An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

Why does it matter that Silicon Valley's tech bros are out to cheat death? Graham Lawton finds out in Aleks Krotoski's The Immortalists, a disturbing new book that charts the territory with brilliantly dispassionate reporting

Culture

2PMP2DP Cats lying down and resting on the floor in the courtyard of Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan in Cairo, Egypt

Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

Culture

Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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91av recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

Culture

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Technology

If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

Culture

FKE16F Ladram Bay. Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Devon. UK.

Earth

The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

Culture

A human brain made with golden wires

Mind

Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

Culture

Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

Health

Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

Culture

Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

Comment

The best new science fiction books of October 2025

Culture

Mind

Novels with a certain structure are more likely to be classics

News

A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action

Culture

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

Culture