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It’s on the shortlist for Oxford University Press’s word of the year. But what on earth does it signify?

"Metaverse" is competing against two other terms for the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year, plus NFT news from Johnnie Walker and Mattel.

Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t imagine metal humanoids swimming frog-like underwater. They will probably…

Enthusiasts lit up social media recently with images of what appeared to be a “doorway” into a hillside on Mars. Was it, some wondered, evidence that the red planet could be, or have been, inhabited by aliens? The “door” was imaged by Nasa’s Curiosity rover on May 7 on the…

‘Home’ is not only a place to sleep. Well-being comes from the social aspects of home just as much as from four walls and a roof.

Historian alone is an inadequate description. Charnvit Kasetsiri is a historian-activist. In 1973, he wrote a pioneering history of Ayutthaya as a Cornell University doctorate, published by Oxford University Press. He taught at Thammasat University for five decades and briefly served as rector. He has presented on Thai history at…

Characters in the book described a foreign country as “scary” and the people as “unfriendly”

The Blue Eye, which features ‘scary’ people in street market, has been withdrawn from sale after complaints

Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means probably no more than a billion years ago. That’s old, of course – and there is no suggestion…