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

Foundation's new series is full of new characters and dramatic potential. But instead of mining those rich seams, too many plotlines have become shallow and absurd. It's hard to see a good show go bad, says Bethan Ackerley

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Humans

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

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Gen z friends make a TikTok video with a cell phone. The man is a LGBTQIA person and the female is a young woman living with alopecia. University students and friends

Technology

Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media’s baffling lingo

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·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere

·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere

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Bryan Johnson in Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

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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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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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The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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Mind

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

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Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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Life

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

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