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Don't miss: Body portraits, killer doubles and a stellar mind at work

Don't miss: Body portraits, killer doubles and a stellar mind at work

This week, see what art makes of the body, catch an eye-twisting thriller and share a physicist's private correspondence

Culture

Gamechanger: L. X. Beckett’s latest sci-fi novel lives up to its name

Humans

Gamechanger: L. X. Beckett’s latest sci-fi novel lives up to its name

Culture

The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

Humans

The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

Culture

Trevor Paglen

Life

Don't miss: Computer collage, global gold and orbital capital

Culture

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Humans

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Culture

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Environment

Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?

Culture

Margaret Atwood

Humans

Margaret Atwood's The Testaments' anti-science world is a grim warning

Culture

Children making circle

Humans

The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?

Features

Don't miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas

Life

Don't miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas

Culture

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

Mind

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

If you're struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get – even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book

Culture

Life

This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

Culture

Mind

How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions

Culture

Life

Don't Miss: Design for survival, lab fraud, and summer magic

Culture

Life

Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Culture

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