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Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

Abigail is created to replace her owner's dead wife, just as robots are set to gain rights. Emily H. Wilson explores Lucy Lapinska's Some Body Like Me, the latest addition to "robo-rights" literature

Culture

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

Physics

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

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THE OA Brit Marling Season 1 Episode 6

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Rediscover The OA, a TV show with echoes of late director David Lynch

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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91av Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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91av Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cleaners

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Couple waiting at airport Description Couple sitting, waiting at the airport behind small squared glass wall, evoking a mirage, memory and dreams in blue and grey tones. Zurich, Switzerland. 2009

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Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

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Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

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Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

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When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

Space

When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative definitions of time have other ideas

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

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Documentary-maker films the fallout as her husband opts to be a cyborg

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The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook

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Space

Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

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