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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster

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Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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Extra-hard hexagonal diamonds can now be grown in a lab

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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

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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 Scientist

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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

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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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

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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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