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Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Philosophers have wrestled with the question of whether we are truly free to decide on our actions for centuries. Now, insights from genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are shedding fresh light on the issue

Features

Illustration of a Trilobite Gut Fossil.

Life

Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

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Life

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

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We now know how many cells there are in the human body

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Nature is a quantum engineer

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

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Life

Invasive blue crabs are poised to devastate the global clam supply

News

An MRI scan of a section through the chest and heart of someone who had a heart attack showing damage and swelling (yellow, centre)

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Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

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Illustration of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage approximately 5 to 9 days after fertilisation. The outer trophoblast layer (green) will implant into the wall of the uterus (endometrium) and go on to form the placenta. The inner fluid-filled cavity of the blastocyst is called the blastocoele. The inner cell mass (embryoblast, orange) will form the embryo.

Comment

From One Cell review: Embryology and the future of medicine

Culture

Planting seagrass in Sardinia

Video

Project aims to grow one million seagrass plants in Mediterranean Sea

A project to plant and protect a swathe of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadow in the Mediterranean Sea by 2050 is under way in Sardinia, Italy

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Life

World's smallest baleen whale stays home instead of migrating to feed

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Life

Neuron-like machinery helps anemones decide when to sting

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Intermittent fasting could boost immunity in addition to weight loss

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Technology

The biggest scientific challenges that AI is already helping to crack

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