The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s Circular Motion, moving from the millennia-ahead future of Adam Roberts’s Lake of Darkness to a world ...

The force exerted on a charge is always perpendicular to the velocity of the charge. The force exerted changes the velocity so the direction of the applied force changes as a result. Overall this ...

Alex Foster’s debut novel, “Circular Motion,” is precisely 360 pages long, an appropriately exact total for a story about a near future in which international travel has been revolutionized by the ...