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Science Friction

Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how di

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Total: 250

The signals were weird. But was what happened afterwards even weirder?

Have you heard these stories of what was and what could have been? You'll want to. If we CARE enoug

Will bioterrorism become more targeted with the help of new tools in biotechnology and synthetic bi

Scientists can now 'engineer' biological organisms never before found in Nature. What if they make

Meet three couples who have taken their romances way further than most. Frank, passionate, hilariou

Meet a 12 year old scientist who's got a whole lot of questions...enough to take you to the moon an

The battlelines are drawn, brains tuned, arguments sharpened and teeth gnashing as two teams go he

Why is a famous physicist and cosmologist usually interested in Big Questions about the Universe no

88 metres underground, in the labyrinth of chambers and corridors of the world’s large particle acc

How can a Nobel Prize winning scientist feel like an outsider?

A whistle-stop tour into the lives of adventurous young European scientists and their wunderlust.Fo

Could one volcano cause global carnage? Making sense of a mystery. Your DNA and the archaeological

They’ve struck before, and they’ll hit again. Can we save our skins in time, or will we go the way

A storm strikes from space, with little warning, and electrifying impact. Put away your umbrella, i

Born just months after the Tiananmen massacre, Yangyang Cheng grew up in the shadow of those shocki

Brant Guichard has heard The Music for as long as he can remember.

A musician gives up the rock n' roll dream for number theory, and a glimpse of the infinite.

Meet three homosapiens who are passionate about preserving the future of other species.

Wall Street Journal journalist Preetika Rana has unearthed extraordinary new information about the

Palestinian-American cartoonist and illustrator Marguerite Dabaie thought she understood her ancest