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New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the story of a scholar hunting a great lost poem – which may have something to with climate change

Culture

The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

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The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

Features

Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

News

A child in Peru takes candy from a shelf

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Child obesity is now more common than undernutrition – what do we do?

Analysis

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

Culture

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)

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Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

A close up of someone holding a cup of green tea with foam art

Mind

L-theanine: Can a compound in tea lower anxiety and help you focus?

News

Environment

Are farmed oysters, mussels and clams the ultimate green foods?

Analysis

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction

Culture

Comment

Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Culture

Environment

Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates

News

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Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

News

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