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Life

The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying

Our lives might be more meaningful if fun embraced facing the world as it really is, full of the mundane and the difficult

Culture

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Earth

Revealed: The renewable energy scam making global warming worse

Insight

Optic Cloak

Technology

The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn't there

Culture

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Earth

�鶹��ý reviews the Royal Society book prize winners

Culture

Oil pipeline leak threatens Alabama river rich in unique species

Earth

Oil pipeline leak threatens Alabama river rich in unique species

News

Three snub-nosed monkeys on branch in misty forest

Life

Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive

News

Conceptual city on US-Mexico border

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

Culture

UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

Earth

UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

Culture

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Life

Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place

Visitors to Paths to Utopia are invited to explore new ways of living, but utopias have always been an impossible dream, says Philip Ball

Culture

Earth

Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests

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Life

Placenta’s alarm clock signals when it’s time for birth to begin

News

Health

Human sperm grown in a lab for the first time, claims study

News

Life

White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

News