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Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites

Space

Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites

Both NASA and private firms want to drag resource-rich asteroids closer to home to mine them, but that could stir up dust that could collide with satellites

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Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Life

Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

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Technology

Solar-cell thread heralds promise of wearable chargers

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The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

Life

The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

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Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein's worlds

CultureLab

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

CultureLab

<i>How to Clone a Mammoth</i>: But should we?

Life

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

CultureLab

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

Life

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

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Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

Technology

Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

Regulars

<i>Mixed Messages</i>: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Life

Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America's Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

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Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

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Life

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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Life

Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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