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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?

Plants eavesdrop on each other and communicate with other organisms via subtle messages. So why don't we recognise them as smart beings, ask two new books

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

Life

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

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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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Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

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Everyday drugs: Problems with the pill

Health

Everyday drugs: Problems with the pill

Features

<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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Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

Life

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

We are the sole evolutionary remnant of a big family: in a new book, Ian Tattersall wonders why thinking about our dead cousins makes us so uncomfortable

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Life

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

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Life

I've won a day in court for two chimps

Opinion

Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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Technology

Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

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