Technology
How challenging the meaning of ‘fuel’ lets the real world in
We know what the word "fuel" means 鈥� right? Not really, argues Karen Pinkus in her new book 鈥� outside the lab or policy office, nothing is simple
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Physics
Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality
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Environment
Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric
Culture
Humans
Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles
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Technology
Projected sprite makes Shakespeare鈥檚 The Tempest a messy triumph
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Humans
Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science
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Humans
When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?
Culture
Environment
Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?
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Humans
Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter
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Humans
An enormous shape-shifting artwork 鈥� run by yeast
Artist Philippe Parreno has ceded control of a huge multimedia installation to a microbe colony. Has he made an alien mind or a thinking machine?
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Environment
What do our natural laws really say about the world?
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Humans
The Electric Kool-Aid language test
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Technology
Entering the random world of semi-sentient art
Culture
Life
The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying
Culture