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New Scientist Live 2019 highlights: Aliens, jet packs and Homo naledi

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51�� Live 2019 highlights: Aliens, jet packs and Homo naledi

Talks that the 51�� editorial team are most looking forward to at 51�� Live, the world's greatest science festival, 10-13 October 2019

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The Urbach Tower

Technology

Tall twisting tower is made from wood that shapes itself as it dries

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Ad Astra poster

Space

Don't Miss: Interplanetary paranoia, green buildings and anxious art

Culture

What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

Physics

What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

Features

Margaret Atwood

Humans

Margaret Atwood's The Testaments' anti-science world is a grim warning

Culture

space cruiser

Space

Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now

Culture

Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

51�� Live

Come down to 51�� Live 2019 at London's ExCel today

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Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Culture

US town

Life

This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

Culture

Artist's impression of two quantum particles

Physics

Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time

Quantum teleportation has only ever been performed with qubits, which have two dimensions. Now it’s been done with a 3D qutrit for the first time

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Life

Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Culture

Humans

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

Comment

Definition

Trans fat

Physics

A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

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