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Technology

Inside knowledge: Why we'll never know everything

Our brains are a glorious, uproarious complex mess – and that's just one reason why we'll never achieve ultimate enlightenment about reality

Features

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Earth

Geoengineering the sky is scary but we need to test it now

Comment

Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

Space

Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

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Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

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Technology

Atomic clocks make best measurement yet of relativity of time

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Technology

Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision

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Physics

Keep an open mind on dark matter and rivals that do away with it

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Physics

How dark matter lost its shine for me

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Physics

Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works

Fresh suspicions have reopened the case against dark matter, forcing a fundamental rethink of the familiar force that keeps our feet on the ground

Features

Technology

Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

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Physics

Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before

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Space

Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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Physics

Fuzzy pulsars orbiting black holes could unmask quantum gravity

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