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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan

Culture

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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Environment

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

Culture

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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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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Earth

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

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Life

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

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in Nature's Memory

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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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Technology

Forget the Terminators, our robot future may be squishy and fun

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Physics

The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality

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