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First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a ...

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For years, NASA has woken its space-bound astronauts with playlists chosen from classics of the time. The musical line-up was ...

Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but only now are we finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious ...

Measures like bans on advertising junk food to children are essential for instilling healthy eating at a young age, but we ...

An Australian reader with an abundance of flies in their locality tries to answer a question that has intrigued many of our ...

Cremona’s book is a guide to the different types of plankton found along the British coast, such as the larva of a Magelona ...

Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...

One correspondent with a particularly intelligent dog begs to differ with this question, while another looks to deepen the ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...