Science

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science...

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife will be a highlight of March Joby Sessions/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images...

Annie Bot is literally programmed to please her owner Doug Leon Steele/Millennium Images, UK Not being a...

The Book Club has been reading Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty...

Blood at a crime scene that contained a Y chromosome led to a rare discovery Shutterstock/PeopleImages The...

Visual China Group via Getty Images In Roald Dahl’s novel James and the Giant Peach, magic crystals...

The MMX probe will visit Mars’s moons JAXA The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos...

Flocean’s subsea desalination pod Flocean Turning seawater into drinking water is so costly and energy-intensive that it’s...

Achieving a healthy weight could become more and more attainable as time goes on Merch Hub/Shutterstock The...

Changing the rules of chess can make the game more complex Richard Levine/Alamy Chess can be improved...