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Turing machine

Technology

How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind

Turing's youthful bid for fame proved a great mathematician wrong 鈥� and accidentally created the modern computer

seed bank

Earth

Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime

Green expanse surrounded by the buildings of Newcastle upon Tyne

Humans

Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe

Hive from outside

Environment

Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kew鈥檚 latest sculpture

trees in wood

Earth

One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm

Health

It鈥檚 harder than you might think to appreciate silence

A boy and a girl looking out of a train window

Humans

Perfect people: How tomorrow鈥檚 children will make babies

Photographic contact sheet showing images of a doorway, a hanging coat and a window in a derelict house

Humans

Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales

Click festival

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

Technology

Ancient arts trump game-playing in virtual-reality documentaries

Documentary makers are working with cutting-edge immersive media, but are refreshingly unimpressed by techno-evangelists

Life

Richard Dawkins’s biomorphs come back to life

Technology

How New York fashion show owes its success to old encyclopaedia

Environment

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?