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How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel

How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book? Columnist Annalee Newitz started by asking many kinds of researchers lots of very strange questions 鈥� and ended up in love with slime moulds

Comment

Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene’ almost never was

Features

Humans

Don’t Miss: Netflix’s Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi

Culture

Humans

Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

Culture

Humans

Don’t Miss: Delve into the science of breathing

Culture

Health

Don’t miss: A Nobel prizewinner’s inside story of modern physics

Culture

Humans

Don’t miss: TV series Snowpiercer is based on Bong Joon-ho’s fab film

Culture

Environment

Don’t miss: Europe’s biggest art-meets-tech festival on your computer

Culture

Health

Don’t miss: The science of taking a stroll

Culture

Earth

The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020

Culture

Health

Don’t miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

Culture

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Culture

Humans

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

Culture

Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays

Culture