French authors offer to pay bookshops’ Covid lockdown fines
Bestselling writer says no state has moral right to close bookshops
Bernard Dixon obituary
Editor of New Scientist who saw the magazine’s circulation double during his 10 years at the helm
A new chapter in the evolution of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens
The historian and author on adapting his phenomenal bestseller into graphic format, and why science needs storytellers
We need to talk to our kids about the climate crisis. But courage fails me when I look at my son
Tim Flannery has been speaking about climate change for decades – but he’s finding it harder and harder to be the bearer of bad news
Chris Hoy: ‘I had no natural ability as a cyclist!’
The Olympic hero has written Be Amazing, an inspirational book for children that reveals how they too can be champions, with help from Stoic philosophy, sports psychology – and Beyoncé
Michael Rosen to publish book about his near-fatal Covid-19 ordeal
Beloved children’s author will reflect on illness that put him in intensive care for 47 days using mix of poems and nurses’ ward notes
Runners and writers: who got what in the birthday honours list
Names from across the arts, sport, politics and science are among those recognised
Astronaut Tim Peake: ‘Coming home was a harsh transition. Gravity sucks!’
Four years after leaving orbit, and with a second mission on the horizon, how is life on Earth for the first Briton to walk in space?
‘I’m extremely controversial’: the psychologist rethinking human emotion
How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how we’re brought up, says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understanding this is making our lives harder
Is Boris Johnson’s ‘moonshot’ just another shot in the dark?
Like the first lunar missions, the PM’s ‘Operation Moonshot’ to combat Covid-19 is an ambitious plan that could easily fail
David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59
The anarchist and author of bestselling books on capitalism and bureaucracy died in a Venice hospital on Wednesday
Top 10 books about space travel
The Italian astronaut chooses her favourite extraterrestrial reading, taking in fiction by Italo Calvino and Stanisław Lem alongside reportage and history
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake review – a brilliant ‘door opener’ book
Eating rubbish and the interpenetration of life ... this entrancing study of fungi changes our view of the world
‘From the mundane to the sublime in a second’: Samantha Cristoforetti on life in space
Her 200 days in orbit turned the first Italian woman in space into a celebrity – and the model for a Barbie doll. Back on Earth, she says, it was hard to find authentic relationships
A mushroom-related brush with mortality: how John Cage fell for fungi
Despite one foraging trip landing him in hospital, the avant garde composer held a lifelong passion for mycology