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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

Post-apocalyptic bunker sci-fi is huge this year as TV front-runners Fallout, Paradise and Silo return. Bethan Ackerley asks whether this is a signal we’ve given up on our real world, or if there is hidden hope

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Man behind a curtain back

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Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel

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The Beauty -- Pictured: Bella Hadid as Ruby. CR: Philippe Antonello/FX

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Sony Pictures

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New ��ý recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

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The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm

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The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

Culture

Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

In this extract from the February read for the New ��ý Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, driving across a scorched landscape in a future version of Australia

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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

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Chemistry

Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world

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Space

The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

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Physics

The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it

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