Life5 October 2016
Required: A moral vision for gene editing
Redesigning Life asks some interesting questions about CRISPR gene editing. What we need now are some answers
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5 October 2016
Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?
The internet was supposed to usher in a new e-paradise. A new book, Utopia is Creepy, suggests it's not quite panned out that way
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Life5 October 2016
Complex cats: Let's see our feline friends as they really are
Furry friends or mass killers? Two new books, The Trainable Cat and Cat Wars explore the two extreme views – and what to do about them
Technology6 October 2016
Entering the random world of semi-sentient art
Anywhen, the latest installation to fill London’s Turbine Hall, is very much a work in progress
Life21 September 2016
The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying
Our lives might be more meaningful if fun embraced facing the world as it really is, full of the mundane and the difficult
Technology21 September 2016
When art and technology pull each other to bits
The marriage between art and technology came apart at this year's Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria
Technology21 September 2016
The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn’t there
Artist Conrad Shawcross's moiré-surfaced flues on the Greenwich Peninsula are a shimmering mirage that delights the eye and turns an eyesore into a work of art
Earth | Life | Physics20 September 2016
New Scientist reviews the Royal Society book prize winners
The list of winners of the 2016 Royal Society book prize has been announced. Here’s what we thought of some of them
Humans15 September 2016
Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world
The city’s first design biennale explores the possibility of other, better ways of living. See 10 ideas from the exhibition that aim to shape our future
Life14 September 2016
Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place
Visitors to Paths to Utopia are invited to explore new ways of living, but utopias have always been an impossible dream, says Philip Ball
Technology14 September 2016
Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?
The internet was supposed to usher in a new e-paradise. A new book, Utopia is Creepy, suggests it's not quite panned out that way
Physics7 September 2016
Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel
A classic H. G. Wells story and key mathematics made time travel such a popular idea that it fundamentally changed our thinking, argues James Gleick in Time Travel: A history
Space | Technology7 September 2016
Stardate 08092016, Star Trek‘s birthday mission
Time to beam aboard the USS Enterprise, the world's most famous starship, newly restored at the Smithsonian, just in time for its 50th birthday
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