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Science fiction

Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.
LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

As the Large Hadron Collider's first sign of a superparticle melts away, physicists must contemplate their nightmare scenario, says Gavin Hesketh

Comment

Flying-saucer-like craft swoops over rocky terrain with Saturn-like world on the horizon

Space

Six science fiction novels you should be reading

Culture

quantum artwork 1

Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Features

A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

News

Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

News

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

News

painting of Mary Somerville

Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

Features

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

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Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Features

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Modern science has taken a wrong turn – and it's all because real numbers aren't real at all, argues quantum physicist Nicolas Gisin

Features

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Features

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

News

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