science

In his new film, Ammonite, which closes the London Film Festival this year, director Francis Lee tackles the story of real-life palaeontologist Mary Anning. But this is not strictly a biopic and is reaching for something much greater.
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One of the positives of streaming services like Netflix, is that there is an outlet for unusual international TV that we wouldn’t otherwise get to see. One of these is the new drama, Biohackers, a German sci-fi/thriller series.
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Take a heist. Put it in space and you’ve got a pulp sci-fi tale just waiting to be told and that is Off Rock.
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One of the classic battlegrounds for the ‘Evolution Vs Intelligent Design’ debate is the human eye. In I Origins, they use this debate to underpin the story and explore the nature of humanity.
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The human brain is a fascinating, seldom understood organ of enormous complexity. Sometimes it teaches us the most when it goes wrong, whether due to illness or injury.
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NASA trained him to be an astronaut. They didn’t train the astronaut to be a hero. Inside, a dark secret lay, waiting to destroy the hero and disgrace the astronaut.
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“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.” – from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Sci-Fidelity is a little weird and a lot entertaining. The novella is populated with multi-faceted characters and vivid descriptions of a life at a crossroads.
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The Ningyo is a 1909 period film pilot about cryptozoology. The search for mythological or unproven creatures. A Faustian tale about losing oneself in the process of achieving the filmmaker’s goals.

Dr. Marlowe, …
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Technology is as old as the first tool and stories are as old as speech, but the first science fiction novel is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written in 1818, it is the classic which spawned a Golden Age of science fiction literature and monster movies.
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Nowhere Men is a challenging series. As far as currently-published comics goes, it’s unlike anything else out there. Part science fiction disaster story, part corporate drama, and occasionally experimental …
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David and Robert have never been die-hard loyalist fanatics, but in recent years their consumption has both focused primarily on DC Comics. With certain recent events changing that …
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The solar system is wonderful and fascinating, encompassing nine planets and many other heavenly bodies, except that Pluto is no longer officially a planet. Why was that, and why do so many people seem to care? Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “The Pluto Files” explores the controversy surrounding Pluto in great depth from the perspective of a guy who found himself immersed in the hottest astronomical debate since Galileo.
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