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Organisms are musicians not machines

Organisms are musicians not machines

Improvising cells and the new biology

Ewa Grzybowska
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Quantum realism is impossible

Quantum realism is impossible

Abandoning the dream of an observer-free physics

Paul Davies
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The hype behind nuclear energy doesn't match the reality

The hype behind nuclear energy doesn't match the reality

Nuclear energy will not solve climate change

M. V. Ramana
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We need a new American Dream for the age of AI

We need a new American Dream for the age of AI

Universal basic income will be needed in AI abundance

Zoltan Istvan
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Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth

Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth

We are social animals, not truth-seeking ones

Samuel McKee
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If we look too hard for reality, we’ll fall into a black hole

If we look too hard for reality, we’ll fall into a black hole

Quantum Gravity begins where measurement ends

Daniel Carney
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Beyond the Universe

We need to rethink our notions of the cosmos.

Laura Mersini-Houghton
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Gravity: The Story So Far

What happens when we try to explain gravity?

George Ellis
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Is Space-Time Fluid?

Is space not as immaterial as we thought?

Sabine Hossenfelder
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The Riddle of Gravity

How have different theories developed over time?

Don Howard
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Gravity and the Dark Side of Science

Anti-gravity does not exist. Or does it?

Valia Allori
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Don't believe the dark matter hype

Are we really on the brink of a big discovery?

Richard Panek
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The Universe & RealityArrow Head

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The musical structure behind quantum physics

The quantum waves that play in music and nature

Bridget Queenan
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The physics that reveals the universe could be destroyed in a blink

Our universe could disappear at any moment

Mathias Vogel
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Hawking radiation and the messy truth behind black hole physics

Bringing our models closer to reality

Eugene Chua
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Occam's razor is leading cosmology astray

The search for simplicity is a mistake

Jim Al-Khalili
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Reality is not made up of objects

The quantum illusion of objects

Dennis Dieks
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Life & The LivingArrow Head

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The flaws in the blueprint of life

Is genetic determinism misguided?

Omari Edwards
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False positives, real profits: the dark side of cancer screening

Cancer screening is selling us sickness

H. Gilbert Welch
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Cancer screening harms more people than it saves

We screen. We worry. We don’t live longer

H. Gilbert Welch
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We are overcounting cancer cases by vast amounts

Screening creates cancers, and it’s not clear that it “saves lives”

H. Gilbert Welch
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Naming won’t solve mortality

Healthcare is about more than diagnosis

Ian James Kidd
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Technology & SocietyArrow Head

Transhumanism and enhanced longevity risks a new age of inequality

Transhumanism and enhanced longevity risks a new age of inequality

A new civilisational frontier

Nayef Al-Rodhan
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How transhumanism dangerously ignores human nature

The new religion of the mind

Omari Edwards
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Climate politics is currently just hot air

Freeing the environment from its academic prison

Onofrio Romano
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The Japanese philosophy that could save us from AI

AI, ikigai, and the Japanese secret to meaning in life

Ken Mogi
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The first great joke told by AI might be the last one humans hear

Roman’s Razor: The funniest outcome is the most likely

Roman V. Yampolskiy
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