Astronomy
What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster
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Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our protagonist boards a vessel which can circle the world in a matter of hours – with dangerous consequences for the Earth’s rotation
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SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests
Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can be used to estimate how much carbon is stored in forests – and a study has improved our understanding of how reliable this proxy is and how long-term datasets from SMOS can help us to monitor this valuable resource.
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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 1 – 10
The waxing gibbous Moon of August haunts the low south. Venus and Jupiter are drawing toward a spectacular conjunction in early dawn.
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Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field
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Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field
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Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biological age
When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger with the latter drug
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4 Science Book Recommendations We Loved Reading in July
Check out Scientific American’s fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for July
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