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Mondo Nano: What video games can teach nanoscience

At very small scales, engineering becomes indistinguishable from video game design, claims Colin Milburn in his new book. Should science open itself up to play?

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Health

Inside story on gut health: Why it’s time to take control

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Life

The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

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Life

Intelligent life: Why don’t we consider plants to be smart?

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Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

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Environment

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

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Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein’s worlds

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Life

Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

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Humans

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Death shapes everything from individual lives to whole cultures, argue books by three social psychologists and an undertaker

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Life

Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo’s lament on the male

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Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

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Combs made of hair probe our changing idea of luxury

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