Bolts was one of the most vibrant LGBTQ nightclubs in 1980s London, renowned for its Hi-NRG music and its weekly shows that were at the vanguard of gay culture.

A series of encounters with an unlikely band of separatists.

Sara Moonves managed to save and expand W, a fashion and culture magazine. Her next bet is on “Little W.”

One disaster can create the conditions for the next.

Erotic Review is a refined publication for a different age.

China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.

Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration greenlights new projects across the American west

Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore

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“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.

We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it

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More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

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For the first time ever, researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally and mapped the ecosystems where they are densest.

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

Violent unrest after a stabbing in Northern Ireland showed the extent to which the far right has taken hold in the U.K., as well as in Europe and the U.S.

When it comes to facing our political reality, heteropessimism might not be a bad thing.

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Lauren Oyler asks what we lose when we outsource romantic connection to chatbots, and what we gain when we love other humans.

There’s an ocean of bacteria lurking in the mist outside your window.

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