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Justin Cronin on the books, films and TV that inspired The Ferryman

From Lost to The Tempest, the author of The Ferryman reveals the cultural influences behind his new science fiction novel - the first pick for New Scientist's book club

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How listening to audiobooks may be making us more gullible

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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

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Dusty Beginnings of a Star This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud. Stars form when dark dust from the cloud begins to clump together under the influence of its own gravity. The infalling material forms a disk as it spirals inward, which feeds material onto the forming star at its center. Jets of material that shoot from the inner disk and protostar herald its birth. Planets form out of the remnants of the disk of material that surrounds the infant star. This leads to a question that has long perplexed astronomers about the nature of brown dwarfs, objects that fall between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

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Don't Miss: A Supernova science talk by astrophysicist Thomas Haworth

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Saving Time review: We need a longer sense of time – based on nature

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The best science fiction books out in 2023

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Don’t Miss: Great Egyptology from Tutankhamun to Cleopatra’s daughter

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Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

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Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

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Don't Miss: Galwad, a multimedia climate-responsibility experience

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Don't Miss: Andor, prequel to the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One

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Escape review: An account of the internet's intimate early days

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Don't Miss: NASA's first steps toward new moon mission via Orion trial

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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