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Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Life

Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Plants eavesdrop on each other and communicate with other organisms via subtle messages. So why don't we recognise them as smart beings, ask two new books

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<i>How to Clone a Mammoth</i>: But should we?

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How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

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Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein's worlds

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Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

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Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

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Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

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Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

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Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

Life

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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<i>Mixed Messages</i>: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

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Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

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<i>Men (Dis)connected</i>: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

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Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

Two new books explore what it means to be human in the digital age and dig into the philosophical roots of why our lives are so filled with distraction

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Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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Life

Could these giant dinosaurs have lifted up their pictured prey?

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Combs made of hair probe our changing idea of luxury

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Scientific Babel: Why English rules

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