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Margaret Atwood

Humans

Margaret Atwood's The Testaments' anti-science world is a grim warning

Thirty four years after The Handmaid’s Tale and a hit TV show later, Margaret Atwood’s intriguing sequel, The Testaments, highlights the power of narrative

Culture

space cruiser

Space

Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now

Culture

Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Life

This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

Culture

Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Culture

Artist's impression of two quantum particles

Physics

Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time

News

Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Life

Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Culture

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

Humans

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

Comment

What is trans fat? - cakes and biscuits.

Definition

Trans fat

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Physics

A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

Most ways to purify saltwater take up a lot of energy, but simply running seawater through a thin, heated slice of porous wood can render it fresh and drinkable

News

Definition

Saturated fat

Comment

What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

Culture

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Comment

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Features