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Mind

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing

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Society

快猫短视频 recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Third Realm

Culture
MH56FG View of Seoul city and autumn in Deoksugung palace

Earth

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

Culture
Lord Howe Island emits no plastic into the environment, yet its wildlife is drastically affected by marine plastic debris - a global problem with a chronic local impact

Environment

Photos of an island paradise reveal plastic threat for bird population

Regulars

Mind

Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal

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This image from ESO?s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the V?a L?ctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy?s structure and explain how it formed.

Physics

Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe

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Life

Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics

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Environment

To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it

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Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal

Space

‘This century is special’: Martin Rees on the vast span of time

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Physics

The laws of physics were broken in 2023 – by sperm

快猫短视频's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton's third law of motion

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Life

Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists

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Space

Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success

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Space

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

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Life

How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all

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