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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make

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CMB-S4 will use telescopes installed at the South Pole to measure variations in the temperature and polarization of microwave light across most of the sky to probe for ripples in space-time. Shown here is the South Pole Telescope. Photo: Brad Benson, University of Chicago, Fermilab

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The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating

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Never Let Me go book cover

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New Scientist recommends Never Let Me Go

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Satellite-filled sky

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How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead satellites?

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Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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New Scientist recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

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Netflix handout film still -- Frankenstein. BTS - (L to R) Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein on the set of Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix ?? 2025.

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Del Toro's Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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Once Upon a Time in Space book - James Bluemel Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov seen in Mir?s window from Shuttle Discovery STS063-711-080 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, who boarded Russia's Mir Space Station on January 8, 1994, looks out Mir's window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. This is one of 16 still photographs released by the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Public Affairs Office (PAO) on February 14, 1995. Onboard the Discovery were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, mission commander; Eileen M. Collins, pilot; Bernard A. Harris, Jr., payload commander; mission specialists C. Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, and cosmonaut Vladimir G. Titov. Page 134

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See the beauty of space, captured by the astronauts who experienced it

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Beyond Human series. Collage of human, geometric and natural forms on the subject of inner reality, mental health, imagination, mysticism, thinking and dreaming.; Shutterstock ID 164294465; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

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If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

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Is the universe really one big black hole?

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, even if the sheer volume of ideas in the book made it a challenging read

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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