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Biocode mixes art and academia to explore pigeonholing
A conference on the fallibility of humans鈥� propensity to categorise proves to be a pleasurable romp through unmapped territories

Claiming sexism in science is over is just wishful thinking
Discrimination against women in the race for key science jobs has vanished, says the latest research. 快猫短视频鈥荣 Lisa Grossman begs to differ

Climate change may be triggering rain of rocks in French Alps
Rockfalls in France鈥檚 鈥渃orridor of death鈥� seem to follow warmer weather 鈥� and may become much more frequent as the climate warms

North pole of spinning dwarf planet Ceres glows in the sunlight
The first high-resolution images of a dwarf planet have captured the sun-lit north pole of Ceres

Feedback: Striving to name polyfailure
Portmanteau names proliferate, Pratchett鈥檚 postulate perhaps, swiss-cheesology and more

Parasitic populations solve algorithm problems in half the time
Mathematicians draw inspiration from nature to work out complicated problems 鈥� and now a new technique is using virtual parasites to find the best solutions

Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human
Most of us can distinguish a million or more hues. A winding evolutionary path led to this amazing ability 鈥� and perhaps to our explosion of brainpower

Dogs tap into human bonding system to get close to our hearts
Exchanging gazes with dogs boosts levels of a bonding hormone in both them and us, suggesting they evolved to hijack a uniquely human way of bonding

Plane creates vibrant landscape painting by firing laser pulses
Europe鈥檚 nature reserves can now be monitored from above using lasers to build up intricate watercolour-like maps