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Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

Should researchers be frank about their social beliefs? A book about Noam Chomsky has lessons from linguistics, where science encounters xenophobia

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Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

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art installation

Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

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Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

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A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

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The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

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Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

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Technology

A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal

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children playing

Life

The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying

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Optic Cloak

Technology

The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn't there

Artist Conrad Shawcross's moiré-surfaced flues on the Greenwich Peninsula are a shimmering mirage that delights the eye and turns an eyesore into a work of art

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Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

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Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

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Life

Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place

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Physics

Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel

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