The bombardment of the Earth by cosmic radiation generated by a supernova explosion provoked a huge amount of lightning and extensive forest fires across the planet, thereby...
In our Milky Way galaxy there is a double star system that behaves in an unusual way. This system, called AG Dragon, consists of two stars: a relatively cold giant and a...
Factor Daily’s Gautham Shenoy (who reviewed the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction) reviews Magical Women, a new Indian feminist science fiction anthology edited by...
Neal Stephenson’s next novel is Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, an 880-page Stephsonian brick of a novel that has ample room for two novels, and that’s because Stephenson actually...
Paolo Bacigalupi’s (previously) A Full Life is a new short story in MIT Technology Review that traces the hard young life of Rue, whose family has to move and move again as...
Using a new method of analyzing the data of the NASA’s Kepler telescope that completed its scientific career, astronomers discovered 18 previously unnoticed exoplanets, one of...
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Computer simulations conducted by Japanese scientists provide convincing evidence for the existence of a liquid subsurface ocean on Pluto and similar worlds, and suggests that...