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This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed

A seaside town is devastated when a small fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, disappears at sea. Thirty years later, the boat reappears in the harbour and sets off a moving story, says Bethan Ackerley

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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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A pill capsule with glowing green contents

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We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?

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Nanodiamonds

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Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

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The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation

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What would the horizon look like on a disc-shaped planet? part 3

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The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

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The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

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Chernobyl 2022

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Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

Physicists have shown how time can effectively be reversed for some quantum systems, which would allow for new ways to harvest energy

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

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Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

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The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

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