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Nanodiamonds

Physics

Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

Experiment with nanodiamonds reveals that they are less rigid than other diamonds, adding to our understanding of how they could be used in new technologies

News

Pet owner feeding his tabby cat.

Life

Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat

News

Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

Comment

Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

Culture

2R2EXK8 Cyborg woman face detail in dark space.Metaverse AI artificial intelligence data analysis technology.3d illustration.

Technology

Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

Culture

Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

Features

The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

Comment

The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

Culture

Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

Comment

Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

Culture

Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

Space

Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

Culture

Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

Space

Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

Culture

Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

Life

Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to Alison Flood about mantis shrimp, the pleasures of sci-fi and why empathy is so important in his writing

Culture

Comment

Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

Culture

Comment

New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Culture

Comment

Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

Culture

Space

Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant

Culture

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