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A new kind of logic: How to upgrade the way we think

A lot of problems in today’s world are too big for our brains. An algorithm that identifies how cause and effect are linked could lead us to better solutions

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Space

Beyond experiment: Why the scientific method may be old hat

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Cry

Life

The crying game: How tears can work for you

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Technology

Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth?

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Earth

The big carbon clean-up: 2 steps to stop global warming at 1.5 °C

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Health

Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

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Life

Five wild animals that won't do it in cages

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Life

Playing Cupid to get reluctant corals in the mood for love

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Life

Super bats: What doesn’t kill them, could make us stronger

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sun energy

Space

Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit

Solar panels in orbit could generate round-the-clock green energy and beam it down to Earth. Has the time for this epic feat of engineering come round at last?

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Physics

Making antimatter matter: A particle that could be both at once

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Space

Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space

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Life

Our future language? English rulz OK, txtspk and mind-reading

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Life

How humans evolved language, and who said what first

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