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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

Physics

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole’s event horizon – so choose your own unsettling fate

Features

Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction

Culture

A new transparent wood becomes cloudier (right) upon the release of stored heat.

Technology

Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm

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Clockwork Orange

Life

Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

Culture

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

Space

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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woman astronaut cartoon

Comment

Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

Comment

Quiz: Do you know these great women of science?

Quiz: Do you know these great women of science?

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Physics

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science

Culture

Alien film pic

Technology

Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future

Culture

Wandering Earth pic

Space

The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era

The Wandering Earth, an adaptation of Cixin Liu's story of humans struggling to move Earth to a new home, is coming to Netflix. Our review: Despite a few science bloopers, it's cinematic gold

Culture

Comment

Don't believe women in science face huge inequality? Here's the proof

Comment

Technology

Don’t miss: Exploring your own delusions, playing with evolution

Culture

Life

Don't miss: Space thrills, wooden guts and the rise of esports

Culture

Physics

The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages

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