In this week’s woodturning video, I’ll be turning a piece of bismuth into a hybrid raindrop using Australian mallee burl and ...

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From They Live and The Man from Earth to Sunshine and District 9, these sci-fi films have quiet ideas that echo louder than ...

Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

Historian Tom Holland didn’t believe in Christianity or miracles. But that changed after he wrote a book about the ...