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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script

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Explore what shaped Bill Gates in part one of his autobiography

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Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

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Adrian Tchaikovsky:

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025

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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

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Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet

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Life

New Scientist recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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Environment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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