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Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet

Culture

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

Environment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

Culture

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Culture

Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

Culture

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Environment

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Culture

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

Culture

Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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ARINGAY, PHILIPPINES - DECEMBER 01: Residents queue to receive a dose of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a rural village on December 01, 2021 in Aringay, La Union province, Philippines. The Philippines is rushing to vaccinate its population as it mulls making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory and amid the looming threat of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The country, which has just approved booster shots for its adult population, launched a three-day national vaccination holiday on November 29 to December 1 with the goal of vaccinating at least nine million additional people. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Health

Discover RNA's irresistible ascent from humble molecule to CRISPR star

Culture

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Physics

Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment

Culture

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Life

The inside story of heroic efforts to save three bird species

The graft involved in trying to bring the peregrine falcon, Hawaiian crow and California condor back from the brink in the US makes for compelling reading in Feather Trails by Sophie Osborn

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Society

New ��˾þ� recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

Culture

Mind

Nine profiles of neurodiverse people reveal rich and creative worlds

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Mind

New ��˾þ� recommends: Pixar's Inside Out 2

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Technology

A skilful primer makes sense of the mathematics beneath AI's hood

Culture