Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an ef ...

O n November 16, 1974, the incredible Arecibo radio telescope was used not to receive radio light from the universe but to send out a message to the stars. And 50 years on, the message, the content, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a Martian atmospheric phenomenon reminiscent of the mischievous, spinning Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes. The new visuals show a dust devil consuming a ...

Long before Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, artists and writers were crafting visions of extraterrestrial exploration that would make space flight possible. For centuries, the dream of human ...

An investigation of the changing behaviour of a single quantum bit through time has uncovered a tantalising similarity to the ...