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dog/crab

Life

We know we are – but what else is conscious too?

A fascinatingly flawed new book, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs, demonstrates that hunting down consciousness in other species is tough going

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meat

Humans

Make your own meat with open-source cells – no animals necessary

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Turing running

Humans

The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?

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girl with book

Life

Science books we’re keen to read in 2017

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Science video

Humans

The revolution is televised: YouTube gives science a big bang

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number 12

Humans

Something for everyone in 12 Days of Culture

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Winton Gallery of maths

Humans

Imagination not interaction: inside London’s new maths gallery

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Humans

Short story: The university of the sun

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Jackson Pollock painting

Humans

Neuroscience vs art: Let’s talk across the divide

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Humans

Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?

US district judge Morris Hoffman weighs up the evidence for the prosecution in Martin Daly's book Killing the Competition, and wonders why murder is so rare

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Humans

Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?

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Technology

How challenging the meaning of ‘fuel’ lets the real world in

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

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Environment

Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric

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