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Sean Carroll’s guide to making better science movies

25 Jul 2014

If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many bad science-fiction films, you’re not alone. But Sean Carroll is one of the few physicists who’s actually trying to do something about it, by helping Hollywood producers in his role as science adviser

Carroll, who’s a cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology, has worked on films su

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