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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

Astronomer Ed Bloomer examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past

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Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

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The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope?s reveals a portion of the Milky Way?s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).

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The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

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Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae

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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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Casual man standing on space platform watching planet Earth. 3D generated image. Earth texture is from Nasa (https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunrise-shadows-over-the-philippine-sea).

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

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Environment

Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to the real thing

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Physics

Where does time actually come from?

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Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards finally figuring it out

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The best new science fiction books of July 2025

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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