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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

Andy Clark’s masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data

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Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

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Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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Earth

Investment in renewables was double that of coal and gas in 2015

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A new power plant is planned for Hinkley in Somerset

Earth

Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

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Humans

Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

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Humans

Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

Capturing differences between people can easily fuel prejudice: two books explore how pseudoscience helped make ideas about race and how real science unmakes them

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Life

On the trail of some of the world's rarest monkeys

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Earth

Energy-related CO₂ emissions held steady despite economic growth

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Life

The enigmatic whale we can hear – but have never seen

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Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

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