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free will

Mind

Physics killed free will and time’s flow. We need them back

Modern science has taken a wrong turn 鈥� and it's all because real numbers aren't real at all, argues quantum physicist Nicolas Gisin

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Sadie Watson

Humans

Spectacular archaeology in the shadow of London’s skyscrapers

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Gigantopithicus AW

Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth 鈥� right next door

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Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

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Man having black bushy beard shaved

Mind

The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments

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No Shadow

Physics

Matter, energy鈥� knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power

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skeleton in graveyard

Humans

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

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Matherly

Technology

I never imagined a nuclear plant’s control system being online

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hands touching illustration

Humans

How sharing other people’s feelings can make you sick

Everyone says we need more empathy 鈥� but too much of it can burn you out. Mind training lessons from monks and psychopaths could help us care without crumbling

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Physics

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

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Environment

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

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Humans

The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness

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Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

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