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Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts’

Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better and for worse

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MB05RG Oysters and champagne with lemon wedge and mignette dressing on white plate on blue distressed vintage table.

Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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Fish eye lens view of a man, wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt, inspecting an IBM System/360 Model 91 mainframe computer system, United States, circa 1965. (Photo by Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Technology

What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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4238_D045_00238_R Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chlo?? Zhao???s HAMNET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / ?? 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature

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Man behind a curtain back

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Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel

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Environment

Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new ‘brief history’ of the universe paints a wide picture

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Sony Pictures

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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The Beauty -- Pictured: Bella Hadid as Ruby. CR: Philippe Antonello/FX

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre’s point

In The Beauty, mysterious deaths of models are linked to a new drug and a sexually transmitted infection, both of which kill as they beautify. But if you want great body horror, this isn't the place to look, concludes Bethan Ackerley

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Environment

Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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