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An artist?s impression of the Martian settlement SpaceX has envisioned. Image: SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars/

Technology

Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros

Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book

Culture

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Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments

Culture

A machine that delivers nutrient-rich liquid inside artificial chicken fibres

Environment

Lab-grown chicken could be made chewier using artificial capillaries

News

California-Cultured-Cell-Chocolate. Shaker process

Environment

Inside the mouth-watering race to master lab-grown chocolate

Features

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

Diamond with inclusions

Earth

Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds

News

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Physics

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Culture

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Space

New Scientist recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

Society

What politicians so often get wrong about science

Leader

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

Culture

Space

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

News

Video

Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

Video

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