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Space

We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship

Faster-than-light warp drives are theoretically possible to build, and if aliens are using them, we should be able to detect the gravitational waves produced when one goes wrong

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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W0XR8N hawaii volcano kilauea

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

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Success hope ambition and dream concept. Surreal artwork. Businessman with a stair in a gate, business background illustration. painting

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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

In this dramatic opening to Martha Wells's All Systems Red, the latest pick for the �鶹��ý Book Club, we are introduced to her character Murderbot, a sentient machine intelligence

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Chemistry

Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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