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Kim Stanley Robinson and Red Mars book

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Author Kim Stanley Robinson revisits his vision of life on Mars

As our book club revisits Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson reflects on imagining a 2026 Mars mission — and how today’s colonisation plans and climate realities measure up.

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Representation of plasma

Physics

QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm

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Why quantum physics says there’s a multiverse

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Why quantum physics says there’s a multiverse

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Nanodiamonds

Physics

Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

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Abstract system of quantum computing

Technology

We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI

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Technology

Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K

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Pet owner feeding his tabby cat.

Life

Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat

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Physics

Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

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Physics

Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

Elizabeth Banks stars as an author shrunk by her scientist husband Matthew Macfadyen in this major new series – but it fails to live up to its promise, finds Josh Bell

Culture

Technology

We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption

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Technology

Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

Culture

Physics

Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

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Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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