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FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

After 50 years of books, games and movies, what more could the Alien franchise deliver? An inventive TV show, with fresh monsters and new heroes, finds our TV critic Bethan Ackerley

Culture

Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Where the Wild Thoughts Are podcast

Mind

èƵ recommends podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are

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Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London, UK, on Monday, June 16, 2025. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang projected that Europe's artificial-intelligence computing capacity will increase by a factor of ten over the next two years, with more than 20 so-called AI factories in the works. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Technology

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

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2H4G74E Lisbon, Portugal. 2nd Nov, 2021. Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications of Meta (Facebook), Nick Clegg addresses the audience (via web transmission) at Altice Arena Centre Stage during the second day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon.This is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and also a meeting point for the debate on technological evolution in people's lives. This year, around 40.000 participants are expected to attend the Web Summit. (Credit Image: ? Hugo Amaral/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

Culture

Female psychologist observing a couple's conversation during a therapy session in a house

Mind

What can psychoanalysis teach us about love and heartbreak?

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Every Brilliant Thing_Jonny Donahoe_@sohoplace_credit Danny Kaan

Comment

èƵ recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The èƵ Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

The èƵ Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction

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Comment

Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

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Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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