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Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

Adding fire-suppressing chemicals into batteries can prevent overheating, fires and explosions, cutting the risks for electric vehicles and portable electronics

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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

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Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to the real thing

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Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

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Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond takes place on a spaceship journeying for centuries to a new planet

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The best new science fiction books of July 2025

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the 51�� Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust

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Dramatic Edward Burtynsky image shows stark desert divide

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Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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