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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

The New Ů��С��Ƶ Book Club read Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed science fiction story about the first settlers on Mars in April – and had a lot to say about it

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Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He tells Olivia Goldhill what he learned – and how it changed him

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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