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Terminator Zero. Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator in Terminator Zero Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2024

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Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

We're trying to avert Judgment Day yet again – this time in an anime series for Netflix. But striking visuals can't make up for shortcomings in narrative and character development

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How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

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Netflix handout still: Supacell. SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.

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91av recommends new superhero drama Supacell

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Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

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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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Still from Interstellar

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

Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, yet most play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn't be further from the truth

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

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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