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robot dog

Life

When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights

steel making

Technology

Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?

life artwork

Life

Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth’s surface

Physics

Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink

leaf-like rangeomorphs

Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life鈥檚 big bang never happened

Technology

Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Hypnosis

Health

What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

Amazon

Environment

Earth’s most important rivers are in the sky 鈥� and they’re drying up

traveller in fog

Physics

Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity

parasites

Life

Parasites are going extinct in droves 鈥� and we should be very worried

They cause deadly diseases and brainwash crickets to leap into ponds, so why are conservationists fighting to save parasites from extinction?

Health

Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

Technology

The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?

Technology

Tech giants, states or trolls: Who will control tomorrow’s internet?

Technology

The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map