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Human brain. Digitally enhanced 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of a normal human brain. An eyeball is shown at lower left (blue).

Mind

Neuroscience can't tell us the way to govern people's brains

From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape laws and policies, but the science simply isn't ready

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Life

Screwworm could be the first species targeted by an 'extinction drive'

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Mind

‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are we next?

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Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help your ageing microbiome?

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Technology

Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale

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Space

We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem

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Technology

Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them

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Mind

How to sparkle in conversation with strangers

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Balanced diet nutrition keto concept. Assortment of healthy ketogenic low carb food ingredients for cooking on a kitchen table. Green vegetables, meat, salmon, cheese, eggs. Top view background

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Why controversial ideas in science shouldn't always be dismissed

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Space

A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

Brown dwarfs are somewhere between the size of a planet and a star, so how could we have potentially mistaken two of them for distant galaxies? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that solving this cosmic mix-up is particularly possible now, as galaxy research has never been stronger

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Physics

Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally

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Technology

You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet

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Humans

What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa

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Mathematics

The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

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