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Calculate but don’t shut up

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Quantum theory

Computing and artificial intelligence

Vertigo AI

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Beauty and aesthetics

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Planktonium

Ecology and environmental sciences

Palaeontology

This riotous life

Deep time

Evolution

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Decolonising the cosmos

Nations and empires

Medicine

The body is not a machine

Illness and disease

History of ideas

Human evolution

Homo imaginatus

Philosophy of mind

Cognition and intelligence

Cosmology

The search for alien tech

Astronomy

Physics

Phenomena: waves

Engineering

Music

Oceans and water

Defend the deep

Bioethics

Healthcare workers of yore

Gender

Why simplicity works

Moths in slow motion

The silent pulse of the Universe

Work

Magnetic river

History of technology

Enduring memory

Neuroscience

Chemistry

Phenomena: energy

Living orbs of light

Complexity

What animals think of death

Animals and humans

The Standard Model

Genetics

An idea with bite

Hisako Koyama, the woman who stared at the Sun

Cosmology in the dark

Aerial sheep herding in Yokneam

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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. 

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