Science
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Biotechnology
What it’s like to wear a prosthetic that ‘feels’
6 minutes
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Technology and the self
Adaptive technologies have helped Stephen Hawking, and many more, find their voice
5 minutes
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Biotechnology
The uncanny art inspired by evolution and generated by ‘crossbreeding’ images
5 minutes
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Language and linguistics
The space between our heads
Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated thoughts?
Mark Dingemanse
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Music
Can biofeedback help to unlock the mysteries of music’s therapeutic effects?
6 minutes
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Biotechnology
How harnessing the power of dogs could help scientists sniff out cancer early
7 minutes
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Genetics
Like the emperor’s new clothes, DNA kits are a tailored illusion
George Estreich
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Biotechnology
Spidergoats to the rescue! How to make silk from milk with genetic engineering
6 minutes
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Biology
If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently?
Rebecca Wilbanks
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Earth science and climate
Life goes deeper
The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms
Gaetan Borgonie & Maggie Lau
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Technology and the self
Natural, shmatural
Mother Nature might be lovely, but moral she is not. She doesn’t love us or want what’s best for us
Molly Hodgdon
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Future of technology
Humans have long wished to fly like birds: maybe we shall
Nicholas Carr
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Sports and games
The solution to doping is to extend the blame beyond athletes
Silvia Camporesi & James Knuckles
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Genetics
We made a minimal cell and began a synthetic-life revolution
Dan Gibson
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Biotechnology
Bio-techne
Half-human soldiers, robot servants and eagle drones – the Greeks got there first. Could an AI learn from their stories?
Adrienne Mayor
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The environment
Sunshine in a bottle
Mimic the dance between carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and you can tap into clean solar energy and ease climate change
Peter Forbes
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Biotechnology
Biohackers should produce a microbial uberfood for the world
Dawn Field
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Art
Spray the DNA away – an artist’s stand against encroaching genetic surveillance
4 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
How beautiful bioluminescent bacteria can expose invisible water pollution
3 minutes
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Evolution
How chameleons change colours not to blend in, but for nearly opposite reasons
4 minutes
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Bioethics
The mini robots that may show how to ‘programme’ cells for improved performance
4 minutes
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Bioethics
Why finding creative ways to end our reliance on meat may be a moral imperative
3 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Will life-forms that can go a century without water save crops from droughts?
3 minutes
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Mathematics
Why is a mathematician studying fungus?
3 minutes