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Light Show tricks meaning out of physics and biology

A new exhibition plays with the physics of light to show just how important it is to our perception of the world

Books & Arts

Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?

Books & Arts

It took more than inspiration to spawn Frankenstein

Books & Arts

Win a Kindle Fire HD in our sci-fi theme competition

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Life

The search for ET is a detective story without a body

Books & Arts

Is extinction really such a bad thing?

CultureLab

Timing was everything when Darwin's bombshell exploded

CultureLab

Time is running out for the solar revolution

CultureLab

Quantum film competition: Winning weirdness

CultureLab

The man who's crashing the techno-hype party

Evgeny Morozov does a good job of dispelling "big data" hype in To Save Everything, Click Here, but fails to explore the way we shape the tech we use

CultureLab

Life

All work and no play: Why Neanderthals were no Picasso

Opinion

Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind

CultureLab

Can the internet revive US democracy?

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Humans

What we really know about human courtship

CultureLab