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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

Space

What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

An imaginative and compelling book reveals how radio waves help us tune in to our universe – and even search for alien civilisations, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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How To Talk to AI

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�鶹��ý recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Life

What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

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Life

What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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Mind

Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'

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Comment

�鶹��ý recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Space

Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action

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