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Pet owner feeding his tabby cat.

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

Some cats will suddenly refuse to touch brands of cat food that they have eaten for years. Changing the way the food smells might solve the problem

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

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

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

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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.

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The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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

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

Star Nathan Fillion is stoking rumours that cult western-in-space television series Firefly could be rebooted. Emily H. Wilson realises she is being toyed with – but is still praying for its return

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant

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The best new science fiction books of March 2026

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