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Katy Clough, Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London

Star Trek used wormholes to jump through space – what’s the science behind them?

Since Star Trek began sending its crews out to explore strange new worlds 60 years ago, the franchise has both imagined and inspired new concepts for travel across the vast distances of space.

Among the most intriguing are “wormholes”: mysterious tunnels through spacetime that connect otherwise distant places.

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