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Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed

From the first private moon landing to the first civilian spacewalk, Elon Musk’s SpaceX helped drive a big year for private space flight

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Health

Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people

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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

Space

The best new science fiction books of 2024

Culture

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

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Life

��è��Ƶ recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Rachel Kushner

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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

Culture

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

Environment

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

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the ��è��Ƶ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group

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

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Environment

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

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

Culture

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

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