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Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob

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FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

Culture

Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The 91av Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

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91av recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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91av recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

Culture

The Shrouds press images

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David Cronenberg's new sci-fi film is devastating and mysterious

In The Shrouds, Karsh, Myrna and Maury talk – a lot – about mysterious shrouds, improbable tech and ever-more-complex conspiracy theories. Nothing happens, just grief and, er, death, finds Simon Ings

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Life

Do the bumps on a bell pepper reveal how sweet it will be? Er, no

Regulars

Chemistry

Super-sticky hydrogel is 10 times stronger than other glues underwater

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

Culture

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

Culture