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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

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Aim high but don't shoot for the moon, mathematicians advise

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Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer

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We're becoming more individualistic and it's affecting our love lives

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Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria

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Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

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Q-Day could destroy bitcoin – and our retirement savings

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Glaciers in the 'roof of the world' have suddenly started melting

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Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem

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Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI

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3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy

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

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Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

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Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images

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

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Unsettling dance piece explores how AI is warping human relationships

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

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Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail

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Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the biggest emitters

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NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square miles

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NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square kilometres

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First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

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We may finally know why gold stays so shiny

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents

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Space storms could switch signals and cause serious train accidents

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Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

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Will lab-grown sperm let infertile men have children of their own?

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Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano

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Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything

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

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Why your brain needs plenty of “Aha!” moments

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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day

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Experimental mRNA vaccine may protect against multiple Ebola viruses

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Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger

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Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory

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How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel

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Mathematicians stunned by AI's biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet

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Epic dreaming is leaving people exhausted and distressed

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Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years

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Women’s body temperature rises from age 18 to 42 but we don’t know why

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The mysterious reason why women get hotter from age 18 to 42

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Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test

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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

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This is the most underrated sci-fi film franchise of the 21st century

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Shiver me timbers: Do we have to worry about space pirates now?

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PMOS shows us why many scientific terms need to be renamed

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