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<i>This Idea Must Die</i>: Which science ideas should retire?

This Idea Must Die: Which science ideas should retire?

Brain plasticity, godlessness, Malthusian notions – many theories need burying, say the intellectual glitterati who reply to John Brockman's latest question

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Where we're headed in the search for our minds

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Where we're headed in the search for our minds

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<i>Birth of a Theorem</i>: Mathematics, Boltzmann and brio

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Birth of a Theorem: Mathematics, Boltzmann and brio

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<i>A New History of Life</i> shows we're not extinction-proof

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A New History of Life shows we're not extinction-proof

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Art, elections and mad cow disease

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Art, elections and mad cow disease

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Work in an age of robots

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Work in an age of robots

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Risking everything to save songbirds

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Risking everything to save songbirds

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Our 2014 Pitch Us a Movie Competition winner

Our 2014 Pitch Us a Movie Competition winner

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An encyclopaedic guide to the dark genome

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An encyclopaedic guide to the dark genome

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Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design

Health

Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design

The extreme deformities caused by bone cancer push the human body to its limits. Our amazing ability to adapt could inspire future architecture

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What makes us altruistic – and what's it good for?

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Eco-city dreams vs real eco-activism

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Turbulent lessons from tropical storms

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Back to black: The enduring quest to portray nothing

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