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The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ��è��Ƶ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance

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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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Earth

These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust

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This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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The waiter robot ONYRO of the Ipsum Tek French company is displayed during the 8th edition of the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 23, 2024. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Forget the Terminators, our robot future may be squishy and fun

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Physics quantum and quantum superposition

Physics

How quantum superposition forces us to confront what is truly real

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Physics

The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality

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Earth

Why geoengineering is no longer a complete taboo for scientists

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Physics

How metaphysics probes hidden assumptions to make sense of reality

All of us hold metaphysical beliefs, whether we realise it or not. Learning to question them is spurring progress on some of the hardest questions in physics

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Physics

At last, we are discovering what quantum computers will be useful for

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Danny Boyle's long-awaited zombie sequel 28 Years Later is a triumph

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Physics

Searching for the past and future of quantum physics on a tiny island

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Physics

The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology

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