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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

Think a digital version of your mind will allow you to live forever? It might, but it will also open you up to software manipulation and server problems, says Annalee Newitz

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Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

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Puffadder Shyshark

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As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

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Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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A close-up of the 3D printed reconstruction of a female Denisovan,

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AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

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Imagined Mars settlement

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Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

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Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?

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Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

Our conceptions of alien life are based on a sample of one: Earth’s life. That means even our wildest imaginings are likely to be completely off beam

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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

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When will we hear from aliens? We may already have done so

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The problem with plastic - and how science can solve it

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How to solve our plastic waste problem

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