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Read expert opinions from the world's leading scientific minds on everything from science's big conundrums and latest research outcomes to future science

Earth

Why electric car maker Tesla has torn up its patents

Rival electric car makers are not the enemy – petrol stations are. So opening up Tesla's patents may not be as crazy as it sounds, says Slate's senior technology writer

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Earth

My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans

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Technology

Dobby, Pikachu and Kermit are my robots’ role models

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Health

Doctors must go digital to deliver local care

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Humans

Science, not soccer, will boost Brazil

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Health

When an anthropologist tackles Alzheimer’s disease

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Technology

Why the Turing test needs updating

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Health

Wireless devices: a health threat during pregnancy?

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Earth

Making science cool won’t win over the denialists

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Humans

How I conjure a social illusion with ventriloquism

Your brain's system for directing attention is what makes you think a puppet has a mind of its own, argues ventriloquist and neuroscientist Michael Graziano

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Earth

Why cities shouldn’t lose their distinctive stinks

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Life

Open your mind to the gene-modified American chestnut

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Earth

Time to chow down on à la carte chemicals

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Online feminism meets neurosexism on festival circuit

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