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Destinies

Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus

Culture

bioinformation

Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Culture

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

lake

Earth

It's time artists woke up to the power at their fingertips

Culture

Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour

Space

Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour

Culture

Ley

Space

Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

Culture

fur

Life

Why do we have such a close relationship with animals?

Culture

earthquake

Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Culture

Graphic design can save your life – here’s how

Health

Graphic design can save your life – here’s how

Culture

Brooks

Humans

Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

State warfare wrecks homes and environments, and confuses land rights. Forensic architecture may help bring justice, finds a new book

Culture

Humans

A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

Culture

Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

Culture

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds

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