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Environment

Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

Adding fire-suppressing chemicals into batteries can prevent overheating, fires and explosions, cutting the risks for electric vehicles and portable electronics

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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

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

Culture

Health

Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

Culture

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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Environment

Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to the real thing

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Humans

Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce

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Physics

Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

Features

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

From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which might be our culture editor Alison Flood's pick of the year so far

Culture

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

Culture

Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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

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Earth

These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust

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