Life
Artworks highlight legal debate over ‘abandoned’ DNA
An art project reconstructs faces based on DNA picked up from the streets – can we legally keep our discarded genetics away from prying eyes?
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Space
Sublime images to inspire an off-Earth generation
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Earth
How the cold war spawned the environmental movement
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Humans
What gives the human mind its edge?
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Health
The trouble with neuroscience
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Health
Acid trips down memory lane
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Earth
How nature writing can make us care
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Long may science continue to inspire poetry
Opinion
The festival year starts here
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Technology
A brilliant trip back to the technological future
Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony
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Humans
Tracing the roots of human morality in animals
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Humans
What does it mean to be posthuman?
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Life
How science takes the Bible to bits
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Earth
A new apocalypse now: Vietnam’s conservation tale
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