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The best new popular science books of February 2026
Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan
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Space
The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery
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Space
Comets were on fire this year 鈥� for better or worse
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Physics
Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us
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Space
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
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Space
Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?
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Space
The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating
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Physics
The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality
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Space
Is the universe really one big black hole?
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Space
Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely
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Space
We鈥檝e discovered the most massive black hole yet
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Physics
Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?
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Physics
Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours
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Mathematics
Why physicists think geometry is the path to a theory of everything
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