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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

Astronomer Ed Bloomer examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past

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Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

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Is this the raciest conference invite ever?

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Is this the raciest conference invite ever?

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Bryan Johnson in Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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Can AI make novels better? Not if these attempts are anything to go by

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Can AI make novels better? Not if these attempts are anything to go by

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Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond takes place on a spaceship journeying for centuries to a new planet

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The best new science fiction books of July 2025

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite

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Spiders that get eaten after sex are picky about mates. You don't say

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How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

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Danny Boyle's long-awaited zombie sequel 28 Years Later is a triumph

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The uncanny stork/baby correlation that really is for the birds

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