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14 Apr

Ringworld: Larry Niven discusses Dyson Spheres, the science of Ringworld an…

April 14, 2025
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“Why not build just the equator? Much cheaper.”Alamy Stock Photo Somebody told me about Dyson spheres in the mid-1970s. Maybe it was Po...

13 Apr

Science

Book Club reviews: Readers give their honest thoughts on Dengue Boy by Mich…

April 13, 2025
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Michel Nieva and his novel, Dengue Boy We have read all sorts in the New Scientist Book Club, from Octavia E. Butler’s classic slice of...

03 Feb

Science

The best new sci-fi this month featuring a TJ Klune thriller and new Adrian…

February 3, 2025
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A dark moon is the location for Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new sci-fi novel ShroudLaperruque / Alamy Humanoid mosquitoes, alien contact on de...

04 Jan

Technology

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

January 4, 2025
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Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year...

24 Nov

Science

Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

November 24, 2024
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Mars – the kind of place to raise your kids?ESA /MPS/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA As a kind of living embodiment of ...

14 Oct

Science

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake

October 14, 2024
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A reconstruction of male and female Neanderthals based on the La Chapelle-aux-Saints fossilsS. ENTRESSANGLE/E. DAYNES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIB...

01 Sep

Technology

The Best Reading Lights (2024): Clip-On, Rechargeable, Portable

September 1, 2024
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Reading before bed is a great way to relax. But getting the right balance of light can be tricky. We want to illuminate the text withou...

26 May

Science

Read an extract from science fiction novella All Systems Red by Martha Well…

May 26, 2024
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“I was looking at the sky and mentally poking at the feed when the bottom of the crater exploded.”RCH Photographic I could have become ...

25 May

Science

Sci-fi author Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot series, on what a machi…

May 25, 2024
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Martha Wells, author of All Systems RedLisa Elliott Blaschke When I wrote All Systems Red, one of my goals was to think about what a ma...

01 May

Science

The best new sci-fi books this month from Stephen King to an Ursula K. Le G…

May 1, 2024
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A new short story collection from Stephen King, You Like It Darker, is out in MayShane Leonard Every month, I trawl through publishers’...

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