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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look forward to fiction from astronaut Chris Hadfield and award-winning authors Ken Liu and Mary Robinette Kowal

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet

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Unforgeable quantum money can be stored in an ultracold ‘debit card’

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Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy

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Quantum computers are finally on the verge of being useful

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Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

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Quantum Motion system at NQCC full view angle - Photo Credit Christy Nunns and Quantum Motion

Technology

Quantum computer made with silicon chips looks like a time machine

This is the first quantum computer fully built using standard silicon chip manufacturing techniques – a step towards the mass production of quantum computers

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Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

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Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Physics

Even in our digital world, materials still matter

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