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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

From Dune to Babylon 5, the Eragon author reveals five inspirations behind his new adult science fiction novel, Fractal Noise

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn’t awful

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Dusty Beginnings of a Star This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud. Stars form when dark dust from the cloud begins to clump together under the influence of its own gravity. The infalling material forms a disk as it spirals inward, which feeds material onto the forming star at its center. Jets of material that shoot from the inner disk and protostar herald its birth. Planets form out of the remnants of the disk of material that surrounds the infant star. This leads to a question that has long perplexed astronomers about the nature of brown dwarfs, objects that fall between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

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Don’t Miss: A Supernova science talk by astrophysicist Thomas Haworth

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Daylight saving time change, spring forward

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Saving Time review: We need a longer sense of time 鈥� based on nature

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A young boy walks across dusty arid desert land at sunset. Location: Djenne ( Djenn?? ), Mopti, Mali, Africa

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The best science fiction books out in 2023

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Don鈥檛 Miss: Great Egyptology from Tutankhamun to Cleopatra鈥檚 daughter

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Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

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Don’t Miss: Galwad, a multimedia climate-responsibility experience

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Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR

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Don’t Miss: Andor, prequel to the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One

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DDEW4X Diana Schiepp demonstrates the world-wide data communication on an IBM Web Server 400 at the Internet Fair in Berlin on the 29th of May in 1997.

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Escape review: An account of the internet’s intimate early days

Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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Don’t Miss: NASA’s first steps toward new moon mission via Orion trial

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Two noir sci-fi novels show crushing despair can make great reading

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Don’t Miss: Final season of dystopian fantasy See comes to Apple TV+

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