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First look: Cover for new James Bond novel, Solo
Thursday 01 August 2013
You might be forgiven for mistaking the cover of the new James Bond novel, Solo, for something relating to another well-loved long-running franchise in the process of being rebooted: Star Wars (although the novel has nothing to do with Hans Solo, obviously).
Eve Online's biggest ever battle was the game's 'Battle of the Alamo'
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Over 4,000 pilots were involved a one-tenth speed space battle for precious - virtual - resources
YouTube launches 'Geek Week', nerds left in the shade
Thursday 25 July 2013
Running August 4-10, each day of the week will be dedicated to different strand of geekery
Gas cloud 'stretched like spaghetti' by supermassive black hole
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Through studying the cloud's death throes, scientists hope to learn more about the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Amazon launches comic imprint with George R.R. Martin and Neal Stephenson onboard
Tuesday 09 July 2013
New imprint dubbed 'Jet City Comics' will publish single editions as well as graphic novels
Film review: The World's End - what the critics made of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's latest offering
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Sci-fi comedy follows up Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz
Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam: Geordies could defend the world from Kaiju invasion
Monday 08 July 2013
Blockbuster star: 'We'd just band together. We wouldn't even need no robots'
What are the ethical implications of a human head transplant?
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Human head and brain transplants are now feasible. That's according to Italian neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero who believes he has worked out how to transfer the head of one human on to the body of another.
Sir John Pendry, pioneer of the 'invisibility cloak', wins top Institute of Physics honour
Monday 01 July 2013
The physicist first published the idea for an "invisibility cloak" in 2006
The Week in Radio: Blown away by the science masters' brush with death
Wednesday 26 June 2013
When it comes to science it doesn't take a lot to blow my mind. I'm still reeling from what happens when you chuck a load of Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke (if you haven't done it, you have yet to witness one of life's miracles). So I've got a lot of time for the long-running Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage, a programme that manages to simultaneously expand your brain power while lulling you into thinking you're chuckling away at a panel show for simpletons.
Laurence Phelan reviews Man of Steel (12A)
Friday 14 June 2013
Dir. Zack Snyder, Starring Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, 143mins
Scottish author Iain (M.) Banks dies of cancer aged 59
Monday 10 June 2013
Scottish writer had announced that he was suffering with terminal gall bladder cancer on April 3 this year
Tributes paid to 'Wasp Factory' author Iain Banks after he dies from cancer: 'He's dead, I'm crying in an empty house'
Monday 10 June 2013
Bestselling crime writer Ian Rankin has led tributes to his late friend Ian Banks, author of The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road, who died yesterday aged 59 just two months after announcing he had terminal cancer.
After Earth 'is worst movie of 2013': Is Will Smith's reign over the summer box office over?
Tuesday 04 June 2013
With rotten reviews for father-son sci-fi adventure, After Earth, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's decades-long run of good luck seems to be over
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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