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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

Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look forward to fiction from astronaut Chris Hadfield and award-winning authors Ken Liu and Mary Robinette Kowal

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

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

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

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

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

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The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

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The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

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Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

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A child in Peru takes candy from a shelf

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Child obesity is now more common than undernutrition – what do we do?

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FX's Alien: Earth --

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

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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)

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Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

We know fermented foods do us good, but the ZOE founder's new book still surprises with fascinating facts - and avoids feeling like an ad for his gut supplements, says Helen Thomson

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L-theanine: Can a compound in tea lower anxiety and help you focus?

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Are farmed oysters, mussels and clams the ultimate green foods?

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

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

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