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Life

Could James and the Giant Peach inspire the future of food?

In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how by the 2030s, botanists had worked out how to grow hybridised superplants to help feed the world

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Gene-edited babies are the future – but these CRISPR start-ups aren’t

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Technology

How not to misread science fiction

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Mind

What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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Space

Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going

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Technology

This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop

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Space

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Humans

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved to be so different from other primates

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Life

Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?

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Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Mind

Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body

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Space

Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science

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