Read a short excerpt from Kaliane Bradley’s time minister for June’s Book Club

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Kaliane Bradley’s protagonist gets some anxious news in the time minister Andrey_l/Shutterstock The interviewer said my name that caused my thoughts to squeeze. I’m not saying my name, not even in my head. She had said it correctly, as people generally don. “I’m Adela,” she said. She had an eye pair and blonde hair of … Read more

Our judgment at Larry Level Ringworld: Sci-Fi Classic has lovely math, shame over Teela

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The book club gives off their judgment on Larry Nive’s ring world Eugene Powers/Alamy It was there that is an experience moving Dengue boyto Larry Nive’s section of classic science fiction, RingworldFirst published in 1970 and very redolent of the sci-fi writing in that era. Not a bad experience, mind, but quite a shaking change … Read more

QUBIT BREAKHRHRHREGH could make it easier to build quantum computers

QUBIT BREAKHRHRHREGH could make it easier to build quantum computers

Could a new approach help make quantum computers flawless? Quantum A Canadian quantum computing starts claim that its new QUBIT enables much smaller and cheper-error-free quantum computers. But getting there will be a steep challenge. To correct its own mistakes, a traditional computer hides duplicates of information in several places, a practice called redundancy. In … Read more

Pegguin POO helps keep the Antarctic cool

Adelie Penguins

Adelie Penguins on the sea ice from Antarctica -Hisliness Ashley Cooper Pics/Alamy Steam of ammonia, which rises from piles with droppings in Antarctica’s crowded penguin colonies, helps increase the formation of clouds that have a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight away from the surface. “This demonstrates a deep connection between the ecosystem and atmospheric processes,” … Read more

Giant Ground Sloths developed three different times for the same reason

Sloths repeatedly evolved large and small body sizes

Old sloths cam of different sizes Diego Barletta When cooling, drying the climate turned the litter to giants – before humans potentially drove huge animals for extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famous sluggish herbivors moving through the tropical canopies of rainforests. But for tens of thousands of millions of years, South America was a staggering … Read more

Trump’s Golden Dome Defense Project Could Space Arms Race

Trump's Golden Dome Defense Project Could Space Arms Race

US President Donald Trump (left), accompanied by US defense secretary Pete Hegeth (right), Golden Dome Missile Defense announces Shield Chris Kleponis/Pool/Epa-Effe/Shutterstock US President Donald Trump has proposed a defense project, called the Golden Dome, to intercept all incoming hypersonic, ballistic and advanced cruise missiles threatening the country. “When fully built, the Golden Dome will be … Read more

Flash -flooding sweeps through vital shrine of Australian animals

Flash -flooding sweeps through vital shrine of Australian animals

A Tasmanic Devil is led to the safety of a ranger in the middle of flooding at Aussie Ark Sanctuary Aussie Ark Conservation workers are running to protect a precious group of Australian animals after raining in New South Wales led to floods that have killed four people. Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus Harrisii), brush-tailed Rock Wallabies … Read more