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GB. England. Bristol. 2021. Bristol Royal Infirmary. Martin Parr's cancer treatment. Chemotherapy transfusion.

Health

A sharp interrogation of why we retreat from other people's illnesses

How well do we look after people who are seriously sick? Astonishingly, research is scant – which makes Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton's ambitious new book, Being Ill, very welcome

Culture

P1MNB3 The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is a species of viper endemic to western Iran which was described in 2006. The head look

Life

Richard Dawkins's latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box

Culture

San Sebastian Film Festival handout picture: Bel Powley, Nick Robinson in Michael Tyburski's 'Turn Me On'.

Mind

Bel Powley is fabulous in this wonderful dystopian satire

Culture

How The Light Gets In festival press handout image.

Space

��è��Ƶ recommends HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London

Culture

BAW24_PaPop_Rohini Devasher, Sol Drawings, 2023_Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

Space

��è��Ƶ recommends astronomy exhibition Borrowed Light in Berlin

Culture

Cloud and trees reflections on river Wye with Black mountains background.

Life

It's time to celebrate a renaissance in English nature writing

Culture

Bill Gates in What?s Next: The Future with Bill Gates. Cr. Netflix ? 2024

Technology

Bill Gates's Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future

Culture

Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

Humans

Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

Culture

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Society

��è��Ƶ recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

Culture

Manta ray {Manta birostris} from below, Sulu-sulawesi seas, Indo-Pacific

Life

Richard Powers's new novel is a beautiful love letter to our oceans

From colonialism to AI, this Booker-longlisted novel urges us to wake up to how we treat wild creatures and places

Culture

Technology

Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

Culture

Environment

How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

Culture

Comment

��è��Ƶ recommends the 'surprisingly emotional' Game of Sisyphus

Culture

Mathematics

Top statistician David Spiegelhalter on how to deal with uncertainty

Culture