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Life

Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger zooms in on how parasites hijack the brains of their tiny host animals

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EWXH9C THE MARTIAN (2015) MATT DAMON RIDLEY SCOTT (DIR)

Space

A doe-eyed look at space exploration is inadequate for the zeitgeist

Culture

H7X53M Los Cedros River, Cotacachi-Cayapas Reserve, Ecuador

Life

Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book

Culture

Egret Take off at Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai, India

Life

Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

Culture

Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

Culture

Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

Culture

Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

Space

Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

Culture

Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

Video

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Environment

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Culture

New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist

Culture

Mind

Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

Culture

Video

Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

Video

Humans

The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

Culture

Technology

Explore what shaped Bill Gates in part one of his autobiography

Culture

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