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SELSEY, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 10: Workers from Chichester council clean spilt debris from a refrigeration container that fell from a tanker and washed ashore on the beach on December 10, 2025 in Selsey, England. A clean-up effort is underway to remove debris from England's southern coastline after sixteen containers carrying bananas and other fruit tipped off the Baltic Kipper cargo ship into the Solent strait between the Isle of Wight and British mainland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Space

The best sci-fi novel in 2026 so far – plus 6 other great reads

Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson rounds up her favourite reads of the year to date – and highlights one particular book as her top pick

Culture

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Space

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Features

An Infinity Mirrored Room

Physics

A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be within our grasp

Features

The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

Space

The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

Culture

Backrooms A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

Culture

A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

Space

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

Features

Earth

Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may influence its climate

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Space

How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

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Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a strange future from M. John Harrison

Culture

Environment

'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

Culture

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The late Ian Watson's sci-fi The Embedding is intriguing – but dated

Culture

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Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots

Culture

Space

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

News

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