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The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

Life

The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

Some people delight in them and prize their meat, others see them as practically taboo. Mark Essig's book explains why pigs inspire such divergent views

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Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites

Space

Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites

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Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Life

Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

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<i>How to Clone a Mammoth</i>: But should we?

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How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

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Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein's worlds

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Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

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Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

Life

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

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Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

Technology

Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

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<i>Mixed Messages</i>: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Life

Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

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Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Death shapes everything from individual lives to whole cultures, argue books by three social psychologists and an undertaker

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Life

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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Life

Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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Life

I've won a day in court for two chimps

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