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Can there be an algorithm for every human desire?

Lance Fortnow shows how an esoteric mathematical problem has deep implications for our future in The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the search for the impossible

Books & Arts

The promise and perils of a datafied world

Books & Arts

Light Show tricks meaning out of physics and biology

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Technology

The radioactive legacy of the search for plutopia

Books & Arts

It took more than inspiration to spawn Frankenstein

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Win a Kindle Fire HD in our sci-fi theme competition

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Life

The search for ET is a detective story without a body

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Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?

Books & Arts

Timing was everything when Darwin's bombshell exploded

CultureLab

Is extinction really such a bad thing?

A thoughtful exhibition at London's Natural History Museum explores the benefits of extinction, and the possibility of humanity eradicating itself

CultureLab

Quantum film competition: Winning weirdness

CultureLab

The man who's crashing the techno-hype party

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Life

All work and no play: Why Neanderthals were no Picasso

Opinion

Time is running out for the solar revolution

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