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Can we create the perfect farm?

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The people of the cloud

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5,000 exoplanets

History of science

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In the gale

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Imaginary numbers are real

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Out of the forest

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Seeing life

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Connected-up-brains

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Minmini (Fireflies)

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Good fire

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The incredible life of Maria Sibylla Merian

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The Antarctic paradox

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Phenomena: electricity

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Gödel’s incompleteness theorem

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A new Earth rises

Quantum Wittgenstein

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The AI historian

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The split-body problem

AI’s first philosopher

The web of life

Genetics

Phenomena: magnetism

Pyrocene Park

How does a quantum computer work?

History of technology

The many disguises of Australian walking sticks

Essays and videos exploring physics, evolution, cosmology and other frontiers in science

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology. 