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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

Sandra Newman, the author of Julia, the latest pick for the 51¶¯Âþ Book Club, explains why she wanted to rewrite Orwell’s classic dystopia from the point of view of the lover of its protagonist Winston Smith

Culture

An artist's impression of three merging black holes

Physics

Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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location of distant black hole

Space

Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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Chemistry

Homemade malt is the key to baking the perfect loaf of bread

Regulars

Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth

Space

Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

Culture

Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

Space

Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong?s photos of Buzz Aldrin?s first steps on the Moon. This was what it all boiled down to in the end, even after the unprecedented feats of rocketry and all the extraordinary technical innovation which had safely flown two astronauts to a destination a quarter of a million miles from home: the basic human act of walking.

Space

Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

A fresh vision of the Culture universe from Iain M. Banks plus new books from Brandon Sanderson and Naomi Alderman are among the science fiction treats in store this November

Culture

Definition

Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Space

Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time

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The scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween, chosen by an expert

Culture

Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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