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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

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series

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Bryan Johnson in Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

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Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?

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The surprising science that reveals what it takes to win The Traitors

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The surprising science that reveals what it takes to win The Traitors

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The best science and technology documentaries of 2024

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The best science and technology documentaries of 2024

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Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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Sir David Attenborough

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The 12 best science documentaries of 2023

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Lessons in Chemistry review: TV show delivers – just stay with it

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Lessons in Chemistry review: TV show delivers – just stay with it

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Foundation Season 2 is now out on Apple TV+

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The best TV shows of 2023 so far – science fiction and documentaries

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Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our planet’s Great Dying

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Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our planet’s Great Dying

This epic TV series kicks off with Inferno, the story of our planet’s biggest mass extinction. Host Chris Packham probes how Earth lost up to 90 per cent of its species in an event which began 252 million years ago

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Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light

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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

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Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

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BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities

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