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The winter holidays are looming, and many of you will soon be spending time in terrible places like airplane seats or the homes of relatives who want to lecture you about something deeply annoying. You need to escape. Never fear—we've got a bunch of recommendations for science fiction novels that will fill your brain with...
This is the view you'd have if you were imprisoned in the Flash's secret extrajudicial detention center. (credit: The CW Network)
Marvel is fast becoming synonymous with the superhero—a pair of blockbusters and two critically praised Netflix shows just this year will have that effect. But they aren't the only game in (cape)town.
DC Comics might not...
Nanoscale particles have been uniformly dispersed in a magnesium alloy, yielding composites with record-breaking strengths — and raising the prospect of using magnesium as a lightweight metal for structural applications. See Letter p.539
Nature 528 486 doi: 10.1038/528486a
Nanoscale particles have been uniformly dispersed in a magnesium alloy, yielding composites with record-breaking strengths — and raising the prospect of using magnesium as a lightweight metal for structural applications. See Letter p.539
Nature 528 486 doi: 10.1038/528486a
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In my blog post on my 10th anniversary at Ars, I promised to answer readers' questions. This is one of my attempts to do so.
Someone asked how to deal with a denialist/skeptic on scientific topics. I think the process can be best explained using...
In my blog post on my 10th anniversary at Ars, I promised to answer readers' questions. This is one of my attempts to do so.
Quite a few people have asked me to go into more detail on the Ars editorial process—how do science news stories get chosen? So here’s a quick look at how...
Aerial photographs, remote-sensing observations and geological evidence together provide a reconstruction of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since 1900 — a great resource for climate scientists. See Letter p.396
Nature 528 341 doi: 10.1038/528341a
A study shows that, as Earth warms, global precipitation will increase by less than many models predict, because of increases in the amount of near-infrared sunlight absorbed by water vapour. See Letter p.249
Nature 528 200 doi: 10.1038/528200a
