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Science fiction

Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.
floods

Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

Features

bird in nest

Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

Features

book pages

Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

Features

sloth

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Features

quantum computing

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

News

whale artwork

Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

Features

chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Features

Elf artwork

Elf Lands: The new fantasy

Culture

Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Patriotic fervour gripped Paris with proof that Isaac Newton had stolen his theory of gravity from a Frenchman – but the details looked distinctly fishy

Features

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Features

Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Features

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

News

Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

News

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