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This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

In her latest sci-fi column, Helen Marshall finds simmering revolution against the tech moguls in two new novels, The Warehouse and The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man

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Artist's impression of two quantum particles

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Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time

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Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

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Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

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Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

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Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

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What is trans fat? - cakes and biscuits.

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Trans fat

a cross section of the modified wood

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A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

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saturated fat

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Saturated fat

What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

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What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

We assume our senses see reality as it is - but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

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Cholesterol

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight

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