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The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think

Robots are becoming more a part of our lives every year, and worries about a robot army rising up have long plagued the technology. But columnist Annalee Newitz talks to nanobot researchers and finds out the real robot army could be a welcome solution to medical or environmental problems

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Health

Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Mind

What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

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Meta and YouTube fined $3 million for harming mental health

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Social media is a defective product

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

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How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

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End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

How end-to-end encryption is the wall that keeps our digital secrets safe – and why modern life would be unimaginable without it

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Humans

51��’s guide to the 21 best ideas of the 21st century

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Society

Should Europe boycott US tech over Greenland, and is it even possible?

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How not to misread science fiction

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Environment

How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

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