Climate Fiction prize winner Helen Phillips: ‘The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present’
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Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents
Trains entering and exiting London’s Clapham Junction StationJack Taylor/Getty Images A number…
Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents
Trains entering and exiting London’s Clapham Junction StationJack Taylor/Getty Images A number…
Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything
Sometimes, you work tirelessly on a problem, only to realise you have…
Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization…
Experimental mRNA vaccine may protect against multiple Ebola viruses
Health officials working to tackle Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of…
Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory
Preparing a diphtheria and tetanus vaccinationSIMANJUNTAK/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Diphtheria is surging in Australia for…
Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years
We’re learning more about how Alzheimer’s disease presents differently in men and…
The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up
Ryan Wills for New Scientist; Alamy; SPL When The Selfish Gene was…
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions
The Canopée is a sail-assisted cargo shipJODY AMIET/AFP via Getty Images The…
