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2T96G2H Harvesting shrimp in a shrimp farm in Loc An, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

30 July 2025

Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?
More than Human at the Design Museum

×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

30 July 2025

The books, TV, games and more that ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week
2YP7KC6 Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Pacific, Deep sea exploration 2025. Deep-sea mining, Deep Ocean Volcanoes

Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

30 July 2025

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials
2FE3T0P NICK OFFERMAN in DEVS (2020), directed by ALEX GARLAND. Credit: FX PRODUCTIONS / Album

Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

30 July 2025

Alex Garland's tech company mystery is smart and compelling, though it can also be chilly and self-indulgent. Bethan Ackerley missed it in 2020, but after five strange years, she has decided to check it out
2JHN167 HUGH JACKMAN, THE PRESTIGE, 2006

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

23 July 2025

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
2JD8W56 ALICIA VIKANDER, EX MACHINA, 2014,

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

23 July 2025

Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick
The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

The 25 best fictional robots – according to ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ

23 July 2025

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series
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New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

16 July 2025

Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers some answers
A Caucasian leopard found in ?The Wild Ones,? premiering globally on 11 July 2025 on Apple TV+.

New nature doc is a call to action to save six endangered species

16 July 2025

The Wild Ones follows three experts out to capture video of species including the Gobi bear and the Javan rhinoceros. It is a heartwarming call to action
TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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

16 July 2025

Lara Lewington's Hacking Humanity looks at the fabulous technology that is changing healthcare. But where is the critical analysis?

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