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Science fiction movie review: Sunshine

The true star of the movie (Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Glowing discs reveal sudden granular jamming

Prior to the phase change, few pressure chains exist (Image: Robert Behringer / Duke University)

Drumlin formed in a blink of geological time

Researchers camp out on the Rutford Ice Stream in Antarctica (Image: British Antarctic Survey)

Robotic hand has a built-in 'slip sense'

An array of sensors lets the artificial handle manipulate objects without crushing them or letting them slip from its grasp (Image: Southampton University)

Did starving Neanderthals eat each other?

Jaw remains of Neanderthal fossils showing hypoplasia lines (arrowed) – evidence of starvation (Image: Antonio Rosas)

Fearless iguanas too cool for their own good

Even a human with a dog leaves this Galapagos Islands iguana unflustered (Image: Thomas Rödl)

Bizarre deep-sea creatures imaged off New Zealand

Vestimentiferan worms - a type of tube worm widely seen at the methane seeps - were sampled from the "Builder's Pencil" site. Builder’s Pencil, which covers 180,000 square metres, is one of the largest seep sites in the world (Image: NOAA/NIWA)

Hens with bigger 'hairdos' get more sex

The head ornaments of female fowl, left and centre, and the male, right (Image: C Cornwallis)

Sand dams: low-tech weapons against climate change

There are now 500 sand dams in the Kitui district of Kenya (Image: Jeroen Aerts)

Leonid meteors set to dazzle

The Leonid meteor shower appears to originate in the constellation Leo (Illustration: SkyTonight.com)

Forest growth is encouraging, say researchers

Mixed, dense forest in Vesijako, Finland, with exceptionally high forest biomass (Image: Erkki Oksanen, Finnish Forest Research Institute)

Elephants see themselves in the mirror

Happy the elephant in front ofthe test mirrors (Image: Joshua Plotnik, Frans de Waal, Diana Reiss)

Tiny uncrewed aircraft to fly into hurricanes

The tiny aircraft weigh just 15 kilograms (33 pounds) or so and can be launched from atop a truck (Image: Aerosonde/NOAA)

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