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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

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Technology

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

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Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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Space

The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon

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The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon

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We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

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Space

Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Space

Astronauts are ready to return to the moon on Artemis II mission

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Space

I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water

During his second-ever spacewalk, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano felt water creeping across his face – and knew he could be moments from drowning inside his helmet

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Space

Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Space

Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

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