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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep that has echoes in today’s intolerance of some fields of study

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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How Taylor Swift is helping botany gain celebrity status

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How Taylor Swift is helping botany gain celebrity status

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The real reason our weather is going to the dogs

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The real reason our weather is going to the dogs

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Telling incoming aliens from space rocks… on a scale of 1 to 10!

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Telling incoming aliens from space rocks… on a scale of 1 to 10!

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Every Brilliant Thing_Jonny Donahoe_@sohoplace_credit Danny Kaan

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èƵ recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

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

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

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How a well-trained New Zealand dog took on quantum computers – and won

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The author who imagined a world spinning out of control

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Anyone keen on a cat cryptocoin? Anyone?

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