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Readers crowd around Liu Cixin for autographs in Zhengzhou in late August during a break in an event to discuss the international influence of the Three-Body Problem trilogy over the last decade.

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Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien ...

Topology has real implications in the world. For example, topological techniques can be brought to bear on calculating the trajectories of spacecraft, and missions have been saved by the efforts of ...

Patrons at the Ignacio Community Library in Colorado explore the IDEA LAB makerspace, where they can access free tools to pursue personal projects and learn new skills. (Photo courtesy of Ignacio ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something else entirely. But his discarded vision may yet hold the key to why the ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...