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On the idea that insects possess consciousness (1)

3 August 2022

Christmas gift ideas: The 13 best science and technology books of 2020

2 December 2020

From The End of Everything by Katie Mack and How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford to Martha Wells’s Murderbot sc-ifi series, Â鶹´«Ã½’s 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone

Editor's pick: Oh, to be so certain that no computer can be conscious

1 January 2020

Language, nature, nurture and change

30 November 2016

Trust no one when it comes to free will

11 May 2016

Big Bang Data offers worries, wonders and some cats

25 December 2015

On the first of the 12 days of CultureLab, Alun Anderson tells of how in a world made of data, an exhibition underlines the choice between the heaven of superconnection or the hell of surveillance

Social brains

6 August 2014

Robot ambitions, GM food's aftertaste, the unkindest cut, and more

Total recall: Data diaries explain who you really are

22 December 2010

New year, new diary – but how much do you really want to record about yourself? Add lifelogging hardware for endless possibilities, says Alun Anderson

Entities hidden by philosophical carpet

2 December 2009

How to sweep up with Ockham's broom, where to ski on liquid snow, and the mystery of the moon rabbit…

A final warning from the Arctic

24 November 2009

The effects of climate warming are clearly visible in the Arctic – see for yourself