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Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

Our bond with cats – which has seen them go from hunter to house pet – may be more diverse than with any other animal. And Jerry D. Moore's Cat Tales: A history rounds up the lot, says Bethan Ackerley

Culture

Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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New ��˾þ� recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

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

Earth

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

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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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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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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

Culture

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

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The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

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

The New ��˾þ� Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres

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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

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Comment

New ��˾þ� recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

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