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It's been 30 years since the release of cult film Blade Runner, and it's 10 since Minority Report. But what elements of the films have come to pass?

Hoaxes, Mischief, and Misinformation Throughout History

Virtual reality can be used to send participants "back in time", which could help them relive and overcome traumatic experiences, new research shows.

A container filled with Lego fell into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still turning up today.

A blind cave-dwelling fish in Somalia knows what time it is, but its “day” is twice as long as ours.

A best-in-class demonstration of a quantum computing device shows that, after years of development, real quantum computers may be on the horizon.

A visual guide to how much has changed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its military response to Hamas's attacks on 7 October.

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New Yorkers have witnessed the urban solar phenomenon of "Manhattanhenge". So what is it?

Pope Francis says "about 2%" of Catholic clergy are paedophiles and that he is determined to confront the problem, in an interview with an Italian paper.

As the UK government prepares to unveil its robotics strategy, experts debate whether the technology risks destroying more jobs than it creates.

Prominent Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin tells BBC News that war between Russia and Ukraine "is inevitable".

After superstorm Sandy, NY mayor Michael Bloomberg said cars with even number plates could only fill up on even dates. Zero was to count as even, he said. Is this right?

Facebook is criticised after it emerges it conducted a psychology experiment to test emotional reactions of nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge.

With the help of a microlight, researchers teach the critically endangered northern bald ibis how to migrate 1,300km across Europe.

A book bound in human skin was recently discovered at Harvard University. The grim tale is not as unusual as you'd think, writes Erin Dean.

Several human species have evolved on Earth so why did only ours survive?

The fossil remains of two human-like creatures found in South Africa could change the way we view our origins, claim scientists.

Mathematicians suggest that the reason bubbles in stout beers such as Guinness sink is simply down to shape of a standard pint glass.

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A computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, is said to have passed the Turing test at an event organised by the University of Reading.