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Humans

Altruism 2.0: How to use science to make charitable acts go further

Effective altruists use evidence and reason to maximise the impact of their kindness. Joshua Howgego follows their lead to see if it can help him do good better

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Physics

The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why?

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Physics

Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing

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Environment

Naomi Oreskes: Turn your anger at science denial into political action

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Health

Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health

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Physics

CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

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Life

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

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Life

From mushroom shrouds to cyber funerals, a 21st-century guide to death

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Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife – even atheists

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Life

When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights

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Technology

Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?

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Life

Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth’s surface

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Physics

Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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