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This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space.

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But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and potentially as many as 200, depending on who you ask) were reported or described ...

One stretch of highway connecting Austin and Seguin, Texas, currently allows drivers to reach 85 mph. Ironically, Marshall notes in his book, many drivers associate speed not with danger, but with ...