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The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

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The 25 best fictional robots – according to ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series

Culture

Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic

Health

Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic

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Illustration depicting runners on a track

Health

Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow old

Features

Casual man standing on space platform watching planet Earth. 3D generated image. Earth texture is from Nasa (https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunrise-shadows-over-the-philippine-sea).

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

Culture

MP46X7 Man sitting on the window seal of an open window reading; man's legs dangling out of window

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

Culture

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

Culture

Health

Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?

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Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

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2RNRCMD Spacecraft on alien planet, illustration

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The best new science fiction books of June 2025

Culture

Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest Oak leaf lumen prints exposed to the sun on the forest floor

Life

Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature

Artist Clare Hewitt uses fallen oak leaves and sunlight to create her works of art before returning the leaves to the forest

Regulars

Health

Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise

Analysis

Earth

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Colum McCann's new novel Twist

Culture

Health

Vaccine may treat cocaine addiction by blocking drug's entry to brain

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Technology

This new book is a one-sided attempt to puncture the AI bubble

Culture

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