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Humans

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

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Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous

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Technology

Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park

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The best new science fiction books of May 2026

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 2017.

Mind

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

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Space

Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

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USA. Arizona. 1988. Pom Pom girls of Sun City West retirement community, the youngest of which is sixty years old. Part of the "America comes of Age" story.

Health

Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go

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Mathematics

Fermat’s Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

Space

What to read this week: Emma Chapman’s mind-expanding Radio Universe

An imaginative and compelling book reveals how radio waves help us tune in to our universe 鈥� and even search for alien civilisations, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Technology

51动漫 recommends Jamie Bartlett’s insightful How to Talk to AI

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Technology

Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Life

What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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