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What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Earth

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Our advanced civilisation is built on easily exploited coal, oil and gas. 51¶¯Âþ explores an alternative history that holds lessons for us all

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Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees

Life

Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees

CultureLab

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

Life

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

CultureLab

Lighting cities with cheap, glaring LEDs is a dim move

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Lighting cities with cheap, glaring LEDs is a dim move

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Exercise may be the best anti-ageing pill

Health

Exercise may be the best anti-ageing pill

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Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling

Life

Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling

Regulars

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

Life

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

CultureLab

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How big data algorithms see us – while they eat us up

Technology

How big data algorithms see us – while they eat us up

CultureLab

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Life

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

It's one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching a computer to understand us so well that it can write a story we'll want to hear

Features

Life

World's oldest hand stencil found in Indonesian cave

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Technology

Physics Nobel won for invention of blue LEDs

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Technology

Snowflake-shaped networks are easiest to mend

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Health

'Perfect storm' turned HIV from local to global killer

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