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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, yet most play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn't be further from the truth

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It's all about thermodynamics

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

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Three bright ideas that could fix fashion's environmental problems

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Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in smartphones

Reducing the size of the microphone in electronic devices would allow manufacturers to include more of them, increasing the capability for noise cancellation

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Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length

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Cooling fabric blocks heat from pavement and buildings in hot cities

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Liquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices

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