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The Soul of an Octopus: Getting to know an intelligent mollusc

The giant Pacific octopus is considered so fearsome that few dare engage with it, but in her new book Sy Montgomery recounts a playful and peculiar nature

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DNA is life’s blueprint? No, there’s far more to it than that

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Mondo Nano: What video games can teach nanoscience

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Health

Inside story on gut health: Why it’s time to take control

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The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

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Intelligent life: Why don’t we consider plants to be smart?

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Physics

Einstein and Schr枚dinger: The price of fame

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Environment

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

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Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein’s worlds

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Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America鈥檚 Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

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Humans

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

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Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo’s lament on the male

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Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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