Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did ...

After a year of out-of-this-world solar events — including a total solar eclipse and sightings of the northern lights — 2025 will bring even more reasons to look up at the sky. Things are ...

Former mineworkers in Yorkshire and the North Midlands are urging the government to share out a pension scheme surplus which would lead to extra payments for thousands of people. In October last ...

As we finally put 2024 to bed, it’s time to start looking forward to what the 2025 publishing season holds in store for our TBR ... Historical fiction fans, rejoice! Allison Epstein is back ...

Should you succumb to this awful temptation, there would, at least, be a wealth of brilliant television to fill your days, as some hotly anticipated science fiction and science-focused TV series ...

Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller budgets to throw at special effects and epic, universe-spanning narratives getting cancelled before their time. But despite ...

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena invites applications for a W3 professorship (tenured) or W2 ...

It was a bad year for good news, but only because the tumult and drama surrounding the 2024 US election and ongoing wars overshadowed some of the discoveries made in the world’s observatories ...

From a piece of cloth that may have belonged to Alexander the Great to an image of our galaxy's central black hole, here's our pick of controversial science stories in 2024. Disagreements about ...

Charities, food banks and homeless shelters are to receive access to a £15m fund from the government to help use surplus farm food. Set to be launched in 2025 the scheme will give grants of £ ...