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Episode 3. Alison Pill in "Hello Tomorrow!," premiering February 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

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Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon

Apple TV+'s compelling new science-fiction offering is a retro-futurist piece, more 20th-century US social drama than technofest

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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Cady Coleman appears in The Longest Goodbye by Ido Mizrahy, an official selection of the World Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. | Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by the press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

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The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) ??? a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration ??? was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole???s boundary ??? the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name ??? is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across. While this may sound large, this ring is only about 40 microarcseconds across ??? equivalent to measuring the length of a credit card on the surface of the Moon. Although the telescopes making up the EHT are not physically connected, they are able to synchronize their recorded data with atomic clocks ??? hydrogen masers ??? which precisely time their observations. These observations were collected at a wavelength of 1.3 mm during a 2017 global campaign. Each telescope of the EHT produced enormous amounts of data ??? roughly 350 terabytes per day ??? which was stored on high-performance helium-filled hard drives. These data were flown to highly specialised supercomputers ??? known as correlators ??? at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory to be combined. They were then painstakingly converted into an image using novel computational tools developed by the collaboration.

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Don’t Miss: Learning about how the first black hole image was taken

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Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist?s tips for fighting memory loss and Alzheimer?s. Dr Richard Restak at his home in Washington, D.C. on August 3, 2022. ? Greg Kahn / Guardian / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: info@eyevine.com http://www.eyevine.com

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The Complete Guide to Memory review: How we remember and how we forget

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Springtime on Mars: Hubble's Best View of the Red Planet

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The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Don’t Miss: Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Marvel's Midnight Suns PlatformsNS, PC, PS4, PS5, XO, XSX From2K Games

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Marvel’s Midnight Suns review: Meet your heroes in new strategy game

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2A7XK59 Lisbon, Portugal. 4th Nov, 2019. Edward Snowden, former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cyber security, speaks from Russia to the audience for an interview by James Ball, during the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon. Credit: Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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Pegasus review: Terrifying exposé of the world’s most powerful spyware

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Impulse review: An authoritative, if dry, sexual behaviours manual

Impulse: The science of sex and desire by psychiatrists Jon Grant and Samuel Chamberlain delivers on its bid to answer our hidden questions about sex, but it can be a little perfunctory

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Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

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Humans

Arch-Conspirator review: Ancient Greek tragedy spun into sci-fi gold

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Collision review: How CERN’s stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

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Humans

Don’t Miss: Star Wars animation The Bad Batch is back with a vengeance

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