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A human brain made with golden wires

Mind

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

Sandra Knapp, chair of the judging panel for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, explains why neurologist Masud Husain’s collection of case studies is such an enlightening, compassionate book

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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

Comment

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

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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

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

The books, TV, games and more that New Ů��С��Ƶ staff have enjoyed this week

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Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

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Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

Culture