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Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read ...

In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, ...

The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...