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Technology

How not to misread science fiction

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz

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An X-ray skull with coloured brain and neurons

Mind

What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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Space

Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going

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Technology

This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop

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3D6BBB4 Comet Lemmon photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025.

Space

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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Health

How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Humans

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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Life

Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?

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Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, makes us question the very existence of time – and how much we can manipulate it

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Mind

Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body

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Space

Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science

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Technology

Imagining a future where smart glasses allow 'AI slop' to be avoided

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Physics

The forgotten women of quantum physics

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