There’s science behind the new sci-fi movie—some of it turns out to be pretty sound.

Part of the job of any science reporter is to ruin your moviegoing experience. Blown away by Gravity? Here are all the ways they got the science wrong. Charmed by A Beautiful Mind? Sorry, it utterly fails to capture the essence of mathematics and that moving fountain-pen ceremony is a total fabrication, says Princeton University, where it was supposed to have taken place, so there.

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