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Circular Motion, Alex Foster (Grove Press 978-0-8021-6448-3, $28.00, 358pp, hc) May 2025. There's a meme that one seems to encounter more and more in these troubled times. A Venn diagram comprised of ...

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Narendra et al. describe in an Australian ballista spider a spring-actuated snare that is triggered by green tree ants. They show that the snare’s architecture delivers exceptionally high instantaneou...

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above

We sequenced COI and 16S rRNA genes from 106 crab megalopae found rafting on the pelagic sea snake Hydrophis platurus to test whether they were the obligate rafting species Planes minutus. Instead, a...

Publication date: March 25, 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Set in an alternate version of the British Isles where South Asian imperial interest colonized much of the globe thanks to their advanced techno...

The Iron Garden Sutra is a religious and existential exploration wrapped in a sci-fi murder mystery

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In this sci fi book review, we take a look at Aliya Whiteley's new book, Skyward Inn. This sci fi horror story teaches us something about the nature of evolution and our own individuality.

Let’s start with what The Raven Scholar is not.

Note: This is a computational essay, with code in Wolfram Language. Cyrtophora Sitting in a hostel room in Pondicherry in 1997, I was wondering what pro...

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I received a review copy from the publisher. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. Red City by Marie Lu Mogsy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars Genre: Fantasy Series: Boo…

Hebe Stanton Under Review:Slow Gods. Claire North. Orbit, November 2025. What does it mean? This oldest of questions is the one Claire North sets out to answer in their newest novel Slow Gods. Our …