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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the 51¶¯Âþ Book Club, on the science behind his creation

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Diamond with inclusions

Earth

Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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EWEH8P The Martian is an upcoming science-fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. This photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of the film company and/or the photographer assigned by the film or production company and can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit to the film company is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known.

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51¶¯Âþ recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (15184551q) Thousands demonstrate for science and research funding, two areas that have been hit particularly hard by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's cuts via the Department of Government Efficiency, in Washington, on March 7, 2025. The demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial featured scientists, members of Congress, and music performers, among others. Thousands attend pro-science demonstration in Washington, DC, United States - 07 Mar 2025

Society

What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Ringworld

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Space

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

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Tom Hanks plays Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

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Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

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Space

We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

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The best new science fiction books of April 2025

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Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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