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Rowan Hooper is joint Head of Features at New Scientist magazine. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and worked as a biologist in Japan before becoming Science Editor of the Japan Times in Tokyo. He ...

Michael Brooks is a science writer and a former editor of New Scientist magazine. His work includes Entanglement (2007) and The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook (2017). The author uses relational quantum ...