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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New ÒÁÈ˾þà Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make

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A human brain made with golden wires

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Neurologist explains how brain disorders shape our sense of self

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

Space

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

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A human brain made with golden wires

Mind

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

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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

Health

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

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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: Ludovic Slimak, discoverer of Thorin showing the Thorin maxillar. Photography Laure Metz

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

Culture

New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the story of a scholar hunting a great lost poem – which may have something to with climate change

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Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

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New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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