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Metaphysics special: Can we ever know if God exists?

Humans

Metaphysics special: Can we ever know if God exists?

No one has proved that God exists, but then no one has proved there is no God. Is working out the truth a supernatural feat?

Features

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Life

Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory

Features

two zebra finches

Life

Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather

News

Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Comment

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

News

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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

News

First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

Earth

First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

News

A clump of yeast cells

Life

Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations

News

Craggy landscape in Yunnan province, China

Earth

Some of the earliest plants took root by growing up, not down

News

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Humans

We need a new secular approach to dignity

Like it or not, the scientific view of humanity is a bleak one. But there is a way round it: breaking the link between what we are and how we are treated

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Why we're funny about facts and prefer emotions

Culture

Life

Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

News

Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

News

Humans

Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

Culture

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