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Building a Ringworld: The Future of Space Megacities
A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo ...
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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic
In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s ...
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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven’s Ringworld
Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...
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Surprisingly, some Dyson spheres and ringworlds can be stable
The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "I read 'Ringworld' and 'Ringworld Engineers' as a student, so I've long been fascinated by engineering on ...
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Siri’s ears are burning as iPhone fold goes liquid metal
Just as Minority Report comes pretty close to predicting visionOS and Spatial Computing, so too will a whisper of Ringworld be reflected in the hard but soft metal substance Apple might use in ...