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Life

Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life

Three new books bring us up to speed on extraterrestrial life, its prospects and possible forms 鈥� but it remains "queerer than we can suppose"

CultureLab pans for gold in 2014 reads

Short story: Images of Undiluted Love

Environment

Magical giant: The story of a much-loved museum whale

Life

Elvis vs Jesus: PageRank for people says who’s bigger

Win glory with your science-themed Lego creation

Win CultureLab’s holiday Lego brick competition

Competition: Last chance to win a medical masterpiece

Life

A taste of no-tech life in a post-apocalyptic bunker

Earth

Look to complexity theory to solve the aid problem

We need to consider poverty as a complex situation if aid is to save lives in the 21st century, says Ben Ramalingam in Aid on the Edge of Chaos

Humans

Why insects bug us so much

Drawing on a moon brings out people’s best and worst

Technology

Top-down or bottom-up? Two visions of smart cities

Technology

Towering imagination of a polymath architect-engineer