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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 dystopias, he set out to write the opposite ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts's universe ...

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a "fireball" in the skies over the southern US - it may have been a meteor breaking up as it falls through Earth's atmosphere ...

After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a problem than those who slept lightly or not at all ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has been wiping out ash trees across Europe ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world's oldest rocks - new measurements make a compelling case that it does ...

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home ...

The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from the past 125 years ...

Helping yourself get to sleep isn't just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuffling to sleep-restriction therapy, columnist Helen Thomson finds out what actually works ...