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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven

18 March 2026

It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what happens next, asks Matthew Sparkes

Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed

5 November 2025

A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into classic science fiction. Read it! says Emily H. Wilson

TOPSHOT - This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP) (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

A terrifying book dissects the neuroscience of warfare

1 October 2025

Warhead by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright is an alarming insider account of how our brains influence conflict – and how those brains were, in turn, shaped by war, finds Elle Hunt

A Caucasian leopard found in ?The Wild Ones,? premiering globally on 11 July 2025 on Apple TV+.

New nature doc is a call to action to save six endangered species

16 July 2025

The Wild Ones follows three experts out to capture video of species including the Gobi bear and the Javan rhinoceros. It is a heartwarming call to action

Alastair Reynolds: An exclusive short story for �鶹��ý

13 December 2023

Lottie and the River is a moving vision of the future from astrophysicist turned award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds

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The Creator review: A mishmash of science fiction ideas

4 October 2023

Set during a futuristic war between humans and artificial intelligence, The Creator is nothing if not spectacular. Shame it is cobbled together from the tropes of other science fiction movies, says Simon Ings

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The Seaweed Revolution review: How to save the world with seaweed

19 April 2023

Marine algae could replace plastic, massively cut our carbon emissions and help feed billions of people healthily, according to an excellent new book by Vincent Doumeizel

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

26 October 2022

An exploration of the deep feeling under the surface of consumerist lives, this film follows Unoaku, who never leaves her flat, as she begins to notice oddities in her slick world, finds Simon Ings

A Frozen Planet II team set up to film inside a mountain glacier in Iceland

Frozen Planet II review: David Attenborough's sequel dazzles

8 September 2022

The spectre of climate change hangs over David Attenborough’s follow-up to Frozen Planet, while two new nature documentary series, Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory and Super/Natural, are no match for the veteran presenter

Top Gun: Maverick review: Thrilling nostalgia with superfast planes

8 June 2022

A high octane mix of war, techno thrills and sports movie, Top Gun: Maverick devotes itself to nostalgia in a well-told tale of misunderstanding and redemption – and superfast planes