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A touch of moss

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5,000 exoplanets

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Seeing life

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Bad therapy

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Quantum Wittgenstein

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The split-body problem

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The web of life

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Calculate but don’t shut up

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The beautiful experiment

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Decolonising the cosmos

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The Standard Model

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The food wars

Hisako Koyama, the woman who stared at the Sun

The sounds of space

Rotifers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored

The unified Universe

Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?

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Light and microscopy

History of technology

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Thanks for all the fish

The science of terrible men

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Shocked

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The abuses of Popper

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Scientists for the people

History of ideas

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. 

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