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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past. Take 1982’s Blade Runner , set in a neon-lit 2019 filled with flying cars, advanced humanoid robots and off-world colonies. While it is true we now have space …

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James Dinneen holds a large hail stone from this year's ICECHIP research

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Storm-chasing scientists hunt for the world’s most extreme hail

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Researchers in dugout canoe

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Researchers re-enact a 30,000 year old sea voyage

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Elephant with ivory tusks in front of a bush

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Quick test reveals illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth tusks

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Enigmacursor dinosaur in conservation

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A closer look at Enigmacursor, the newly discovered dinosaur species

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Look inside the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

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How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

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Kew's Fungarium collection manager Lee Davies

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Unlocking genetic secrets of the world's most vital fungi collection

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A crime scene investigator

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Police forensic scientist reviews the best (and worst) cop dramas

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Spinosaurus reconstruction from BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs

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Dinosaur's water-loving nature brought to life in BBC show

Palaeontologists are finding more dinosaur remains than ever before, and with new technology they can now peer inside these creatures' brains, understand their sensory anatomy and reconstruct whole skeletons from fragmentary remains. Applying novel techniques to a single Spinosaurus skeleton discovered in Morocco, researchers have revealed that this dinosaur was perfectly adapted to an aquatic …

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How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

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Can training your sense of smell help reverse cognitive decline?

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Liquid physics: Inside the lab making black hole analogues on Earth

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The Titanic's twin: Digitally exploring the famous shipwreck

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Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft: Ranking the best fictional archaeologists

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The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory

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