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Rosalind Picard

Humans

What will happen when machines can tell how you feel?

Now that technology is finally getting emotion-savvy, could the machines give us the benefit of their new-found wisdom? Rosalind Picard thinks so

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Earth

Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling

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Smartphone showing interactive chat about symptoms

Health

An app a day keeps the doctor away

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Health

Feeling lonely? You’re not on your own

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brain artwork

Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

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AI artwork

Health

Artificial Intelligence ushers in the era of superhuman doctors

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Sironi

Humans

Why help a torturer come to terms with their past?

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Physics

Five things physicists hate about physics

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Physics

When is a black hole not a black hole? When it鈥檚 a boson star

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A possible view on an alien world: mountaintops poking through mist and two suns visible in the sky

Space

The exoplanet zoo 鈥� a whistle-stop tour

From potentially life-supporting rocks to superheavy hells, there鈥檚 an alien world out there to suit everyone鈥檚 taste. Come and have a look

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Earth

How Aboriginal knowledge can help the world combat wildfires

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Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

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Environment

The ethics issue: Should we give other animals rights?

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?

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