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January 17, 20253 read meThe Supreme Court has upheld the law banning TikTok in the US. What’s next?It looks like…
A mixed bag for private spaceflight, a new species of spider, and the health risks of alcoholWe discuss a big…
Maarten Wouters/Getty Images The shape of unseen thingsAdam Zeman (Bloomsbury Circus) Imagine! No, seriously, just imagine: an apple, perhaps, or…
Iain M. Banks wrote a series of bestselling science fiction storiesJoseph Branston/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images Culture departmentIain M. Banks…
Dingo Gap in Gale CraterNASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS From HG Wells’ Alien Invaders War of the Worlds to Martianabandoned astronaut, we have long…
“A world organized along very different lines of Earth”… Alien ClayScience Photo Library/Alay “Hard” science fiction exists to push the…
Deliver “some crimes to a labor camp on a distant planet”… Alien ClayShutterstock / Creative Space They say no story…
An ion trap can control atoms for quantum experimentsY. Colombe/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY/SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHY After decades of looking,…
A few mammals, including rabbits, have teeth that grow throughout their livesThurid_with_th/Shutterstock Rabbits’ teeth grow continuously, a process that may…
New Glenn reached orbit (left), but the Starship exploded, raining debris (right)Blue Origin; SWNS Compare these two scenes: January 16,…