From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

Scientists warn efforts to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C will fail as data confirms 2024 was the hottest year ...

This article appears in the February 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Rasputins.” ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

The US surgeon general cited four studies to back up his new advisory, warning that alcohol is an underappreciated cancer ...

Feedback has found a contender for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism gong: the scientific journal Intelligence ...

In the centenary of naturalist Gerald Durrell’s birth, a new memoir adds rich new layers to what we know about the man ...

then I have some great new science fiction for your bedside table. We have some big names in the mix – Nnedi Okorafor and Cory Doctorow – and a real mix of genres, from literary adventures ...

We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rigorous evidence that it ...

Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the ...

After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases ...