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Four Japanese couples posed on a hilltop

Humans

Science fiction picks sound wedding bells and other alarms

People are stronger together, according to the latest crop of novels by Maggie Shen King, M. T. Anderson and Dave Hutchinson

Humans

What is really missing from AI?

Humans

Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff’s show is, literally, off colour

fur

Life

Why do we have such a close relationship with animals?

Ley

Space

Rocket man: Willy Ley’s fervour helped put men on the moon

Technology

Beating the odds: the mathematics of gambling

mining

Earth

Our terrifying energy future leaves us with uncertainties

Chinese typewriter

Technology

China’s struggle to overcome technological imperialism

meditation

Health

Lost in meditation: Two books argue over mindfulness

earthquake

Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Detail or range? Two new books offer very different approaches to the fascinating and violent world of earthquake science

Health

Graphic design can save your life 鈥� here鈥檚 how

Space

The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

Environment

Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

Technology

The Darkening Web: Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon