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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

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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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How to temper chocolate

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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The science behind tempering chocolate

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

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Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It's all about thermodynamics

Getting this delicious cooked ice-cream dessert right requires a little bit of science know-how to avoid a melted disaster, says Catherine de Lange

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

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Physics

Physicists determined the paper most likely to give you a paper cut

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