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

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The Unlucky Ones: What It Feels Like to Get Struck By Lightning

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The 17 best popular science books of 2026 so far

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Hold the onions – and see if they make you cry

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A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock

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Machine learning rediscovers equations governing ocean biogeochemistry

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Earth's oldest crater really is more than 3 billion years old, new study confirms

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See the Milky Way’s Galactic Bulge, Captured in Unprecedented Detail

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Binary black hole signal probes event horizon region for first time

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We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars

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Hidden botanical treasures in war-torn Kyiv need global support, study shows

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Ancient proteins hint at all-female Homo naledi burial site in Rising Star cave system

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Language-based screeners may miss kids who struggle to read due to visual-processing issues

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Climate warnings need to be told in tangible ways to prevent disaster

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Euclid captures 60 million stars in sharpest broad view of Milky Way's core

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Does the Netherlands feed the world? Study challenges a familiar view of Dutch agriculture

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Geometric anti-spring works near absolute zero, suppressing vibrations below 0.185 hertz

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How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

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All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female

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

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Automated system detects early signs of nanomaterials toxicity

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Some of the last Neanderthals were surprisingly genetically diverse

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Artificial DNA tiles could deliver drugs and monitor neurons non-disruptively

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New giant wormlion fly species identified on the southern slopes of the Himalayas

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More people today have a stronger belief in their own ability to shape their lives

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Why female guppies prefer rare males and how this might shape evolution

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Teaching with and about GenAI in classrooms

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Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers

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By making key signaling molecules called β-arrestins into druggable targets, scientists crack long-standing challenge

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First complete map of world's seagrass offers warnings and hope for conservation

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Turning low-value diamond dust into high-performance quantum materials

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Top quantum computer expert claims Microsoft’s ‘topological qubit’ doesn’t hold up

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How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison

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A potential hindrance to fusion power may help instead

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The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine

Quantum squeezing sidesteps the limits on mechanical transducers

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Axolotl-inspired skin matrix may help heal wounds with less scarring

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Scientists catch classical space-time crystals moving like Majorana quasiparticles

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Fluctuating oestrogen levels may alter how drugs enter women's brains

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Voluntary corporate climate goals are viewed favorably by investors, researchers discover

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Sugar-coated nanoparticles show promise for treating most aggressive form of brain cancer

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Five years of aerosol remote sensing in Mindelo—a milestone in atmospheric research in the Atlantic

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From virtue to vice: How the morality of popular music lyrics has changed since the 1960s

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Scientists discover ancient brain cells that help block distractions

Hot Jupiter endures star-powered barbecue

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Do hyenas eat livestock and rhinos? Behavioral biologists investigate a surprisingly charming population

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Scientists discover hidden “footprints of death” that may help viruses spread

The world’s largest scorpion lived 415 million years ago

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Interlayer self-doping could unlock room-temperature multiferroics in atom-thin materials

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Hospital workers' phones carry deadly superbugs

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