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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Understanding how things like slime moulds and plants can learn without a brain or even any neurons could help us fight diseases and make smarter machines

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Health

Artificial Intelligence ushers in the era of superhuman doctors

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Sironi

Humans

Why help a torturer come to terms with their past?

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Physics

Five things physicists hate about physics

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Physics

When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star

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A possible view on an alien world: mountaintops poking through mist and two suns visible in the sky

Space

The exoplanet zoo – a whistle-stop tour

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Earth

How Aboriginal knowledge can help the world combat wildfires

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Didier Queloz

Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

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Environment

The ethics issue: Should we give other animals rights?

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?

Tweaking genes to prevent your child dying early from a genetic disorder would be acceptable to most people, but we need to ask how far we should go

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Humans

The ethics issue: Should we make everyone ‘normal’?

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we abandon privacy online?

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we give robots the right to kill?

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Environment

The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?

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