In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

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There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum . Researchers have named this new ...

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Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...

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