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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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A man replaces a magnetic tape data storage drive in an early model office computer, mid 1970s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Technology

Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech stores your data

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Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Humans

Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Culture

TOKA robot checking a missile silo

Technology

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

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image of the steerable needle robot showing the robotic actuation unit and bronchoscope. Note that the steerable needle is not shown

Technology

Robot guides needle into lungs more accurately than human doctors

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plan

Technology

Ukraine's nuclear plants face uncertain future after Russian attacks

Analysis

Where might James Bond go next, in terms of science and technology?

Technology

Where might James Bond go next, in terms of science and technology?

From Goldfinger to No Time to Die, James Bond has long showcased the latest tech advances. Might 007's next adventure involve protecting a low-cost, lightweight, high-capacity battery from sinister forces, asks Kathryn Harkup

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Physics

Nuclear fusion reactions create unexpectedly high-energy particles

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Technology

If cyberpunk no longer fits our vision of the future, what does?

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Environment

Does the UK need new nuclear plants like Sizewell C to reach net zero?

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Weather sensors could float forever in the stratosphere using sunlight

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