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

See medieval depictions of spirits and the cosmos, explore the human condition through equations, and catch fan-funded film Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Culture

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

Physics

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

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Clockwork Orange

Life

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

Culture

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

Space

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

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Physics

Quantum theory might be flawed. That's a cause for celebration

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Physics

Schrödinger’s kittens: New thought experiment breaks quantum theory

Features

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

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IBM Four Qubit Square Circuit

Technology

IBM made a quantum algorithm that could make AI more powerful

Artificial intelligence can automatically sort out data, but it struggles for some particularly complex data sets – a quantum algorithm could do better

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Physics

The quantum world is infamously weird – now we might know why

Features

Quiz: Do you know these great women of science?

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Physics

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science

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Physics

Quantum experiment suggests there really are ‘alternative facts’

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