Humans | Life11 January 2017
Make your own meat with open-source cells – no animals necessary
Engineered meat is taking on a new flavour as an entrepreneur aims to help people make animal-free meat at home, like brewing beer, by sharing cell cultures
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Life11 January 2017
We know we are – but what else is conscious too?
A fascinatingly flawed new book Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs demonstrates that hunting down consciousness in other species is tough going
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Earth | Humans11 January 2017
Down with data! Sagas are more likely to save Earth
Forget cold environmental facts. A new book, The Myth Gap, argues that stirring tales of redemption, atonement and renewal should spur us to action
Humans4 January 2017
The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?
An enormous and probably definitive guide to the life, times and genius of Alan Turing captures his extraordinary diversity for the first time
Life4 January 2017
Science books we’re keen to read in 2017
Look forward to Daniel Everett's latest, the great gravitational wave hunt, maths beyond infinity, the latest insights into sexism, and taming foxes
Humans | Technology4 January 2017
The revolution is televised: YouTube gives science a big bang
The way we explain and understand science is being transformed by online videos, says Leila Johnston
Humans25 December 2016
Something for everyone in 12 Days of Culture
Here are some seasonal treats for the mind. Find angry birds in Canada, watch lions roar in Paris, or curl up with an amazing book about a scientific friendship
Humans | Physics | Technology15 December 2016
Imagination not interaction: inside London’s new maths gallery
The Science Museum’s arty mathematics gallery may be full of treasures but it won’t win new friends among those who aren’t already maths junkies
Humans14 December 2016
Short story: The university of the sun
What present do you give someone who can be anything? A story by Matthew De Abaitua
Humans14 December 2016
Neuroscience vs art: Let’s talk across the divide
Can the messy richness of art be reduced to neuroscience? It's not clear, but the various parties can at least agree on common ground
14 December 2016
Culture’s Puzzle Page: It’s Christmaths…
From how to boil a superlative boiled egg to the brain-explodingly frustrating issue of finding missing objects, we have some lovely puzzles to distract you this holiday
Humans12 December 2016
Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?
US district judge Morris Hoffman weighs up the evidence for the prosecution in Martin Daly's book Killing the Competition, and wonders why murder is so rare
Humans7 December 2016
Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?
From Donald Trump's proposed Mexican wall to the horror of two world wars, an exhibition at the British Library reminds that us that the map isn't always the territory
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