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The Trump administration is playing peekaboo with reality
By cutting surveys of public health, the US government won't be able to properly tackle problems ranging from drug addiction to food insecurity
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Is a robot programmed to prank you annoying? Yes
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The best new science fiction books of November 2025
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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings
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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?
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New Scientist recommends Never Let Me Go
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Minecraft fan may be most committed hobbyist out there
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Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation
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New Scientist recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims
Feedback delights in a 2018 paper that takes care to warn us it reveals 鈥渘othing like super interesting鈥�, and embarks on a quest to find more examples of disarming honesty
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Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable
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New Scientist recommends Sheri S. Tepper’s science fiction novel Grass
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We’ve hit a climate tipping point, but leaders seem unlikely to act
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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?
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