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The Saint of Bright Doors review: Fine debut probes nature of memory

19 July 2023

Stunning sci-fi novel by Vajra Chandrasekera uses magical realism to weave a multi-layered, dreamlike story where the nature of memory and how it can be abused is its deepest theme

Sci fi author Lavie Tidhar: Using Midjourney to explore ethics of AI

21 April 2023

AI tools can explore the ethics of AI itself, says Lavie Tidhar. His new dystopian film uses AI image-generation program Midjourney to tell the story of a well-meaning artificial intelligence trying to help the last surviving human

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LOLA review: Great sci-fi film is rich in ideas, but poor in budget

12 April 2023

In this counterfactual history, war is looming in 1930s England and two orphan sisters invent a machine that intercepts broadcasts from the future. What could go wrong when they lend it to intelligence services?

65 review: Timing is a bit off in Adam Driver's dinosaur thriller

29 March 2023

The premise of this science fiction film from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and the narrative can be jarringly slow-paced

Extrapolations review: Can this climate sci-fi make us care?

22 March 2023

Earth's climate is reeling out of control in this eight-part sci-fi series stuffed with A-listers. From one of the minds behind An Inconvenient Truth, it is heavy on messaging, but lacks some focus

Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon

15 February 2023

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

1 February 2023

Veronica Roth's dystopian take on Sophocles's 2500-year-old tragedy reminds us that human nature is timeless, finds Sally Adee

Replacement of the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel detector, Part2 Date: 07-03-2017 This week, one of the Large Hadron Collider?s experiments gets a ?heart transplant?. --- Physicists and engineers are replacing the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel #detector. This will improve CMS?s ability to make precise measurements on aspects of the Standard Model, including the properties of the #HiggsBoson. The #LHC and its experiments are currently preparing to wake up this spring, when the accelerator will begin to collide particles once more at close to the speed of light.

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

25 January 2023

Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction

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The Terraformers review: What do we owe the animals in our care?

4 January 2023

Annalee Newitz's new novel examines the dark side of "uplifting" animals to a state of self-awareness – and asks whose intelligence is being used as the template, finds Sally Adee

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The best science fiction books out in 2023

28 December 2022

CERN-inspired stories, a feminist retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and a new deep future from Annalee Newitz: sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to in 2023