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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

Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there's some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings

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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

Culture

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

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2H4G74E Lisbon, Portugal. 2nd Nov, 2021. Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications of Meta (Facebook), Nick Clegg addresses the audience (via web transmission) at Altice Arena Centre Stage during the second day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon.This is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and also a meeting point for the debate on technological evolution in people's lives. This year, around 40.000 participants are expected to attend the Web Summit. (Credit Image: ? Hugo Amaral/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Technology

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

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2Y7EFN0 The Bell on Bell Island, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

Earth

The captivating story that Earth’s ‘boring’ layered rocks tell us

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Holy Mary on window Statuette of Holy Mary and vase with plastic flowers in window on a house with bright pink walls, Irish cottage, Ireland

Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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2JHN167 HUGH JACKMAN, THE PRESTIGE, 2006

Comment

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige

Culture

Technology

New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

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Technology

Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

Culture

Humans

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

Culture

Comment

The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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