A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Lyndon Smith has lived his whole life in the West Country, and for the last twenty years at Blakeway near Wedmore. He shares ...

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

Computer simulations can help people gain a better understanding of the situation faced by migrants. This is shown by a new study in which 148 teenagers were assigned random migration pathways, with ...

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She has a forthcoming book, co-authored with Astra Taylor, called “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World.” And ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

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We're just scratching the surface of what the innovative collaboration between human astronomers and AI can unlock.

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Why are humans increasingly performing tasks better conducted by a machine, and all opportunity for human insight, intuition and empathy being stripped from the process?