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Film festival: Questioning our nuclear responsibility

CultureLab

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Film festival: Are RFID tags the mark of the beast?

CultureLab

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Film festival: 'A well-trained monkey could do my job'

CultureLab

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Art scaled up and down

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The great and the (quite) good: best books of 2009

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Artificial ape man: How technology created humans

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

How astrocoders have mapped the universe

Books & Arts

E=mc<SUP>2</SUP>? Not on Conservapedia

Physics

E=mc²? Not on Conservapedia

News

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How our species owes its success to religion

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Humans

Tracing the fuzzy boundaries of science

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Learn all of science in less than half an hour

Books & Arts

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

For morality and theology, read biology

Books & Arts