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Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Technology

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Wholemeal bread can be shaped into carbon electrodes that could replace traditional metal conductors in electrical devices

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When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

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When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

Features

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

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My Husband, the Cyborg

Technology

Documentary-maker films the fallout as her husband opts to be a cyborg

Culture

Physics

The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook

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Space

Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

Culture

The best new science fiction books of February 2025

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The best new science fiction books of February 2025

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Physics

Twisted crystals show hints of a new kind of superconductivity

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Physics

Ultra-thin material creates a magnetic mystery

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Adrian Tchaikovsky:

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

The author of the latest read for the 51¶¯Âþ Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth

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Space

Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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Space

Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks

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The best new science fiction books of January 2025

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The best sci-fi TV shows of all time, according to 51¶¯Âþ

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