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Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks

In his monthly film column, Simon Ings finds that invoking the quantum world is a great way out for Avengers-style franchises when they want to mess with time

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How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

Video

Journeys into particle physics

Journeys into particle physics

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Colin Clive and Boris Karloff

Mind

How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future

Culture

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

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Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

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Life

Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction

Culture

A new transparent wood becomes cloudier (right) upon the release of stored heat.

Technology

Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm

Transparent wood could be used for windows. The material retains more heat than double glazing, but cannot yet be made entirely see-through

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Life

Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

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Space

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

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Quiz: Do you know these great women of science?

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