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The war on pain and why we can't win it

The war on pain and why we can't win it

Joanna Bourke's The Story of Pain may not be able to tell us how to suffer better, but consoles with the notion that pain can be pleasure

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Dobby, Pikachu and Kermit are my robots' role models

Technology

Dobby, Pikachu and Kermit are my robots' role models

Opinion

A straight-talking woman's guide to dark matter

Space

A straight-talking woman's guide to dark matter

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When trilobites ruled the seas

Life

When trilobites ruled the seas

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Information famine at the centre of the infosphere

Life

Information famine at the centre of the infosphere

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Physicists hunt for disappearing Da Vinci

Physics

Physicists hunt for disappearing Da Vinci

Regulars

Online feminism meets neurosexism on festival circuit

Online feminism meets neurosexism on festival circuit

Comment

Hidden paintings of Angkor Wat appear in digital images

Technology

Hidden paintings of Angkor Wat appear in digital images

Regulars

All systems Tao: Holistic view of life's networks

Life

All systems Tao: Holistic view of life's networks

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The fascination of hoverflies on a small island

Life

The fascination of hoverflies on a small island

The Fly Trap, Fredrik Sjöberg's leisurely, meandering reflections on life and entomology, explores the indistinct boundary between science and literature

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Life

Baby mammoth wonder will unleash your inner child

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Technology

ButtonMasher: Storytelling beats action in new games

News

Life

Why antibiotics are WMDs to our bodies' microbes

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Life

How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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