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The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

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The 25 best fictional robots – according to New ��ý

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series

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Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

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

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

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

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Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond takes place on a spaceship journeying for centuries to a new planet

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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

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New ��ý Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance

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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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These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust

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Dramatic Edward Burtynsky image shows stark desert divide

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