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My friend and I once tried to read It Ends With Us together and it’s very bad in a lot of ways. For example, why does Colleen Hoover keep mentioning marine-grade polymer? It comes up so many times. It’s so funny. Why is she doing this

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This has been an epic summer of reading, but we've got our longlist for the #BGPrize2024! Every single one a brilliant delight. Now the hard work starts...

It's not quite "tea, Earl Grey, hot", but precision engineering of microbial food is the food revolution we need. My column: newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

Twas a pleasure speaking with Alastair Bonnett Newcastle University Geography about some of the best maps from his new book on the world's diverse cartographic traditions. “Sometimes it feels like we’re in control; sometimes it feels like the map is in control..." newscientist.com/article/244676…

not a lot of people know that "Sally Rooney: Intermezzo" is an anagram of "merely a nine złoty's orzo". 9 złoty is about £1.50, which from Morrisons gets you 500g of orzo - just 60g less than the weight of *Intermezzo* in hardback. a fun "easter egg" from faber and faber

this is such a great piece from Dean, and definitely lessens my own "child has a phone" anxiety

📢📢Job alert📢📢 We're looking for a new Chief Subeditor at New Scientist. Could this be you? Details here newscientist.com/nsj/job/140204… DMs open.

Fabulous! Rowan Hooper ローワン フーパー has been shortlisted for columnist of the year at the BSME awards... against the likes of Caitlin Moran Jay Rayner Philippa_Perry so no pressure then Rowan! Good luck 👊 And check out his column, it's excellent newscientist.com/article/mg2643… New Scientist

Let the great sci-fi book-off commence! Emily H. Wilson Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 Dr Adam Rutherford Alison Flood fight to the death (well politely debate) over their top science fiction book of all time (if such a genre can even be said to exist!) #nslive24 #newscientistlive New Scientist

Children's book publishers: I'm planning a Christmas round-up of the best kids science (and sci-fi!) books of 2024. Please let me know about all your lovely books at [email protected]

Interesting idea outlined in @NewScientist from former lead negotiator for African Union on how #COP16 could raise $200 billion+ per year needed for biodiversity. newscientist.com/article/245259…

Hurrah for a new genre of fiction winning the Booker: "space pastoral". Check out our interview with Samantha Harvey from Rowan Hooper ローワン フーパー

I asked my colleagues New Scientist to tell me about the best science fiction short stories ever written. Come tell us what we got wrong (there is no Harlan Ellison...): newscientist.com/article/246067…

I nominated two time travel tales in this New Scientist list of favorite science fiction short stories, including All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein and Fire Watch by Connie Willis. Check out the full writeups below!

If I were married and watched My Husband, the Cyborg, I’d want to get divorced. A good documentary, but view at your peril, folks ♥️🤖 newscientist.com/article/mg2653…

I had the privilege of quizzing Adrian Tchaikovsky about his extraordinary sci fi, his writing practices, his big ambition, the line between sci fi and fantasy and a whole lot more this week

John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new science fiction novels out in March. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you, says our culture editor Alison Flood. newscientist.com/article/247062…

Amazing piece from the legendary Larry Niven for New Scientist book club, on the science of Ringworld newscientist.com/article/247606…