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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Health

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health

Features

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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Environment

Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

News

New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Culture

Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

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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

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

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

Culture

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

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The New ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

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

Culture

Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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

The New ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it – and why it still resonates today

Culture

Space

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

Culture

Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

News

Comment

New ¾«¶«´«Ã½ recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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Life

Do the bumps on a bell pepper reveal how sweet it will be? Er, no

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