We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September ...

Unlike any woman in my family or anyone I’d ever actually known, I was going to become — something, anything, whatever that ...

They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. After his terrible experience in the trenches he suffered from what they used to call ‘shell ...