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Casual man standing on space platform watching planet Earth. 3D generated image. Earth texture is from Nasa (https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunrise-shadows-over-the-philippine-sea).

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites

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Environment

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

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Humans

Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce

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2XTY93C Sparking Tesla Coil

Physics

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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The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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

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Lake of Darkness book cover

Space

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

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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

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Earth

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

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

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

Packed with puzzles and narrative threads, Matt Wixey's novel Basilisk is an exhilarating read that is hard to put down

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Technology

Forget the Terminators, our robot future may be squishy and fun

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Physics

The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality

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Earth

Why geoengineering is no longer a complete taboo for scientists

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Physics

At last, we are discovering what quantum computers will be useful for

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