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New Scientist Live

A note from the editor about New Scientist Live

With just one week to go until the world's greatest festival of ideas and discoveries, New Scientist editor Catherine de Lange reveals what you can expect from the show this year

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Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

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2A4NF3X Astronaut, Tim Peake giving a talk

New Scientist Live

A note from the executive editor on New Scientist Live

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Environment

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Culture

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

Culture

Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

Culture

Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

Space

Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

Culture

Woman walking in fantasy forest. 3D generated image.

Technology

The best science fiction books of 2024 so far

Culture

A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

Culture

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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

Culture

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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war

Culture

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

Culture