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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth

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Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (15184551q) Thousands demonstrate for science and research funding, two areas that have been hit particularly hard by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's cuts via the Department of Government Efficiency, in Washington, on March 7, 2025. The demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial featured scientists, members of Congress, and music performers, among others. Thousands attend pro-science demonstration in Washington, DC, United States - 07 Mar 2025

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What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Ringworld

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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C8D-TRL2-003 Film Name: MICKEY 17 Copyright: ? 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Caption: ROBERT PATTINSON as Mickey 17 in ?MICKEY 17,? a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (PRESS KIT)

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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

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The best new science fiction books of April 2025

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The best new science fiction books of April 2025

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NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Are Trump's cuts to science the end of the endless frontier?

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

"What will happen in South America when the billionaires colonise space?" asks Michel Nieva, author of 'Dengue Boy' a nightmarish future tale where a humanoid mosquito seeks revenge in the ruins of an exploited Earth

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Foie gras made without force-feeding thanks to molecular mimicry

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This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

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Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

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The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

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