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The best new popular science books of January 2026

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The best new popular science books of January 2026

A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt

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Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

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A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

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illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

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Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

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A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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��ýs build a window into the fourth dimension

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��ýs build a window into the fourth dimension

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Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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��ýs inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

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We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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