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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

How the physical world influences our conscious experience, and vice versa, are fundamental mysteries. Will we ever work them out, asks Richard Webb

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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Cholesterol

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Cholesterol

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Carbohydrates

Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

Space

Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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An artificial limb is driven by two fiber-based muscles actuated via a heat gun.

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Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight

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Green Film Festival

Humans

Don't miss: Green films, rare plants and a cosmos tour

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Astronaut on Moon

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

Space

Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

Space

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts that averted catastrophe as the Apollo 11 crew were about to land

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Technology

Armoured liquid droplets make mini disco balls, letters and shapes

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Clarke's three laws

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The best sci-fi books put humanity at the heart of their writing

Culture

Don't miss: ethereal artworks, haunted teens and a gift of tongues

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