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Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

A new procedure turns an alloy of nickel and titanium into a material as strong as steel but 20 times stretchier – and one application could be building planes with shape-shifting wings

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

Culture

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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Space

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew set to attempt the riskiest spacewalk yet

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Stranded ISS astronauts reveal the US space programme is not in crisis

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JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

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How to temper chocolate

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope

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The science behind tempering chocolate

A reluctant Catherine de Lange tries tempering for the first time and discovers how to make gloriously glossy chocolate to decorate a cake with

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Sam Howell: ‘One day we might look for life directly on Europa’

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Space

Lightning can make energy waves that travel shockingly far into space

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Physics

How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravitational waves

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