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LIAOCHENG, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18: (CHINA OUT) People take photos with the glass sculpture of a Chinese cabbage installed at a square on February 18, 2016 in Liaocheng, Shandong Province of China. The glass sculpture is 9-meters tall and 5-meters wide. The Chinese cabbage is called "Bai Cai" in Chinese which is a homonym with "wealth". (Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Life

Could James and the Giant Peach inspire the future of food?

In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how by the 2030s, botanists had worked out how to grow hybridised superplants to help feed the world

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Health

2026 is set to be an even bigger year for weight-loss drugs

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Health

Gene-edited babies are the future – but these CRISPR start-ups aren’t

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Mind

Why it is important to make space for solitude over the festive season

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Technology

How not to misread science fiction

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Health

New Year’s resolutions work better if you know what to measure

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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

This Changes Everything columnist Annalee Newitz on how AI-generated content went mainstream in 2025

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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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Science still produced many wonders in 2025 despite being under siege

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Humans

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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