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Mind

Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

People in the US are reading for pleasure less and less, despite it being linked to better sleep, improved mental health and even a longer life

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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

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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

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

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Physics

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Complete terracotta prismoid, in octagonal form, eight columns of inscription, historical inscription of Tiglathpileser I, describing his campaigns and buildings. ? The Trustees of the British Museum

Humans

Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform

Culture

Ringworld

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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TOPSHOT - A passenger wearing a protective face mask waits for his train at Hua Lamphong Central Railway Station in Bangkok on January 4, 2021, as health officials in Thailand announced on Monday 745 new Covid-19 coronavirus cases, the country's highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

Culture

Abstract glass sphere shapes with cyborg head. 3D generated image.

Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

Abigail is created to replace her owner's dead wife, just as robots are set to gain rights. Emily H. Wilson explores Lucy Lapinska's Some Body Like Me, the latest addition to "robo-rights" literature

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Health

Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidden in his books

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Space

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Helios, Luke Jerram's giant sun sculpture

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of February 2025

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