The US science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is guest editor of this week's New Scientist. He writes a piece himself on stories of now:
the literature that best expresses our time, that speaks to our time, is science fiction. How could it be otherwise? Our world is a science fiction.
This is important, because you need the literature of your time. You can't get the meaning of our life in 2009 from historical fiction, nor from science alone.
Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run
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Not all winged dinosaurs were necessarily capable of full flight, but this
anatomical feature may have enabled them to travel further by flapping or
gliding
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