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25/07/2016 - 15:54

Many physicists have made peace with the idea of a block universe, arguing that the task of the physicist is to describe how the universe... →

21/07/2016 - 12:58

The only entity that bothered to bring up questions of ethics in the early 1990s was the church, the only carrier of non-authoritarian... →

11/07/2016 - 14:49

The title of your book is The Inevitable. What does that mean, and why did you choose it? It’s sort of slightly controversial because many... →

09/07/2016 - 12:37

Sex is unknown in bacteria – the simplest and most ancient living cells on Earth – that reproduce by simply splitting into two. Evolving... →

01/07/2016 - 18:39

Sure, humans and dolphins aren’t as disparate as, say, humans and octopus; our last shared ancestor with the latter crawled the Earth about... →

20/06/2016 - 13:58

Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, examines how Kofi Annan, George Soros, Peter Sutherland, and others... →

14/06/2016 - 14:59

In January, for example, a group at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts said they had homed in on most of the genes involved in... →

10/06/2016 - 14:33

The Austrian Catholic church logged 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016, with the Austrian pastoral... →

06/06/2016 - 13:30

To understand this loss, we must first define what we mean by “complexity” in the scientific sense. Consider a Rube Goldberg machine, in... →

01/06/2016 - 18:41

Yes, Russian nationalism is on the rise Pal Kolsto and Helge Blakkisrud edited “The New Russian Nationalism” (Edinburgh University Press,... →

26/05/2016 - 16:23

There is no doubt that SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – has received a huge fillip from the recent discovery of... →

22/05/2016 - 14:35

The different response by two different governments to the phenomenon of popular protest is reflected across the world. It does not just... →

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