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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

A new appreciation of design guru Buckminster Fuller shows how he shaped a world that now manages to see him as both quaint and challenging

Culture

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

News

painting of Mary Somerville

Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

Features

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

Leader

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Features

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Features

A transparent ball of glue, close up, with a white strand of spider silk going into it, twirling around and comnig out the other end. Looks cool and abstract

Technology

Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid

News

Layout of 5-cubit device

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

entanglement

Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Spooky action at a distance – the dislocated effect of the quantum world – is real without a doubt. So the problem must lie in our perception of space and time

Features

Technology

Fungal products won't win prizes for glamour but will be greener

Culture

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

News

Physics

It's mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

Opinion

Space

Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots

News

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