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Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale

Inspired by Ariel Waldman’s docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microscopes, drones and specialised cameras are giving us an unprecedented view of nature from many different vantage points

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Space

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

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The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Health

Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Mind

What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

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Technology

Meta and YouTube fined $3 million for harming mental health

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Technology

Social media is a defective product

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science titles out this month – along with a guide on how to talk to AI, and a look at modern warfare

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Technology

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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Technology

End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

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Humans

New ��˾þ�’s guide to the 21 best ideas of the 21st century

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Society

Should Europe boycott US tech over Greenland, and is it even possible?

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