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Life's secrets lie in stars and Petri dishes

What is life, asks Dimitar Sasselov in The Life of Super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet

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Go with the flow system

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How many languages can one person speak?

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Algorithm engines of the networked world

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Looking inside medics' minds

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Plastic surgeons: the 21st century's portrait artists

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Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing

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Sex, brains and a frustrated reader

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Ten books for 2012

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Cooperation, the secret weapon of our species

In his thoughtful Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation, Richard Sennett argues there are ways to overcome ingrained tribalism

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Short fiction: Experimentation

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A spot of culture

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Earth, life's only home

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Swimming around the statues

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