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Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Major figures in the world of linguistics get the Tom Wolfe treatment 鈥� but how will this story end?

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

shop dummies

Life

Required: A moral vision for gene editing

cat

Environment

Complex cats: Let’s see our feline friends as they really are

children playing

Life

The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying

Technology

When art and technology pull each other to bits

Optic Cloak

Technology

The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn’t there

Andrea Wulf with her award

Earth

New 杏吧原创 reviews the Royal Society book prize winners

Conceptual city on US-Mexico border

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

utopia mock-up

Life

Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place

Visitors to Paths to Utopia are invited to explore new ways of living, but utopias have always been an impossible dream, says Philip Ball

Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

Physics

Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel

Space

Stardate 08092016, Star Trek’s birthday mission

Environment

Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world