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Professionals, your time is up, prepare to be sidelined by tech

Professionals, your time is up, prepare to be sidelined by tech

A new book, The Future of the Professions, argues that machines will soon do the work of lawyers, doctor and others. Should babies be delivered by robots?

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Would you take a genetic test that could lay bare your destiny?

Health

Would you take a genetic test that could lay bare your destiny?

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Inside the Samuel Johnson book prize: The science problem

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<em>The Master Algorithm</em>: A world remade by machines that learn

Life

The Master Algorithm: A world remade by machines that learn

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What is freedom in the digital age?

Technology

What is freedom in the digital age?

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Periodic Tales: all the elements of a splendid failure

Physics

Periodic Tales: all the elements of a splendid failure

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<em>What To Think About Machines That Think</em> gets you thinking

Life

What To Think About Machines That Think gets you thinking

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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

Life

How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

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How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics

Earth

How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics

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<em>Back to the Future</em>: Does physics of Marty's time travel add up?

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Back to the Future: Does physics of Marty's time travel add up?

Today is 21 October 2015 – the date Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in Back to the Future Part II. Can we reconcile the films with reality?

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Humans

Ann Veronica Janssen's room of fog bumps you through the rainbow

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Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is lean, lucid and enchanting

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Life

The Secret Lives of Bats: The adventures of the real batman

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Earth

The best pictures from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015-16

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