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TOPSHOT - Workers including restaurant staff look at their phones during a break while sitting on a bench in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

Culture

Aplysia californica

Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

Culture

Never Let Me go book cover

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New Scientist recommends Never Let Me Go

Culture

The Whie House Effect

Environment

Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

Culture

A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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New Scientist recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Culture

An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

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Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

Culture

Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

Culture

Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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New Scientist recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

Culture

Netflix handout film still -- Frankenstein. BTS - (L to R) Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein on the set of Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix ?? 2025.

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Del Toro's Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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2PMP2DP Cats lying down and resting on the floor in the courtyard of Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan in Cairo, Egypt

Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

Our bond with cats – which has seen them go from hunter to house pet – may be more diverse than with any other animal. And Jerry D. Moore's Cat Tales: A history rounds up the lot, says Bethan Ackerley

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Technology

If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

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Environment

Hannah Ritchie's new book on net zero is a breath of fresh air

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Space

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

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Life

New Scientist recommends Horizon: Secrets of the brain

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