Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books
21 March 2018
From the hunt for a theory of everything to the complex Rosetta mission, there’s treasure to be found in a trawl of some of the recent popular science writing
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Return to Titan: Why this icy world is our best bet to find life
21 March 2018
Tantalising clues suggest the weird seas on Saturn’s largest moon contain a chemical cocktail capable of spawning life. A daring mission now aims to find out
The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness
19 March 2018
The most precise calculation of the lifetime of our universe finds that a bubble of vacuum energy made by the Higgs boson could envelop us all in 10139 years
Mystery of neutrino masses may be explained by dark matter force
16 March 2018
Dark matter and neutrinos are both cosmic loners – they don’t interact with much. But dark matter could give neutrinos their mass through a weak repellant force
Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s
14 March 2018
Ceres, a distant dwarf planet, hosts sheets of ice just under its surface. In the summer, some of this ice may sublimate and coat shadowy crater walls in frost
We’ve just spotted the brightest mystery radio burst from space
12 March 2018
Fast radio bursts are some of the weirdest, most elusive phenomena in the cosmos. We just found three new ones, one of which is the brightest we’ve ever seen
