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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick

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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 �鶹��ý

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Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic

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Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic

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

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

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

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The best new science fiction books of June 2025

June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder

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Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise

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�鶹��ý recommends Colum McCann's new novel Twist

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

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