51��

Skip to content

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

After 50 years of books, games and movies, what more could the Alien franchise deliver? An inventive TV show, with fresh monsters and new heroes, finds our TV critic Bethan Ackerley

Culture

Digital artwork showing a lone human figure standing among jagged, glowing purple peaks that resemble an abstract mountain range, representing the hidden quantum landscape inside a solid.

Physics

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

Features

Technology

Quantum router could speed up quantum computers

51��

Technology

3D-printing could make it easier to make large quantum computers

51��

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The 51�� Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

Culture

Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

Comment

Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Culture

Technology

US military wants to secure the internet by making it more quantum

51��

Technology

Another quantum computer reached quantum advantage – does it matter?

A quantum computer that uses particles of light took about two dozen microseconds to complete a calculation that may take trillions of trillions of trillions of years on the world’s best supercomputers

51��

Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

51��

Physics

Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality

Features

Physics

Quantum device detects all units of electricity at once

51��

Technology

It is impossible to build a practical quantum broadcaster

51��