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2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

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An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing

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Who needs Eurovision when we have the Dance Your PhD contest?

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Who needs Eurovision when we have the Dance Your PhD contest?

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Sci-fi books, Culture - 2025

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Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)

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Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe

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Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe

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The world the universe and us podcast

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The world, the universe and us: We're relaunching our weekly podcast

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The best new science fiction books of May 2025

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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?

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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?

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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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New Scientist recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

Feedback was pleased to come across journalist Taylor Lorenz's coining of the word "viralflation", as videos with hundreds of millions of hits proliferate across the internet

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Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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The blue whale: the world's most versatile measuring stick?

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