Life’s secrets lie in stars and Petri dishes
What is life, asks Dimitar Sasselov in The Life of Super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet
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What will be will be, but what will we be?
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Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing
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Algorithm engines of the networked world
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Looking inside medics’ minds
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How many languages can one person speak?
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Cooperation, the secret weapon of our species
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Ten books for 2012
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Sex, brains and a frustrated reader
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Physics
Rhyme and reason: The Victorian poet scientists
When formulae failed them, James Clerk Maxwell and other eminent men of science turned to verse, with often hilarious results
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A spot of culture
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Short fiction: Experimentation
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Swimming around the statues
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Earth, life’s only home
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