Life
A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024
The past 12 months have seen animals of all shapes, sizes and colours strut their stuff 鈥� here are just a few of the best pictures from the year
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Mind
The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?
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Society
51动漫 recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Third Realm
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Earth
A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
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Environment
Photos of an island paradise reveal plastic threat for bird population
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Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal
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Physics
Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe
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Life
Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
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Environment
To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it
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Space
‘This century is special’: Martin Rees on the vast span of time
Cosmology has transformed our understanding of time past and the aeons to come, pointing to a deep future in which life may morph into incredible forms, says Astronomer Royal Martin Rees
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Physics
The laws of physics were broken in 2023 – by sperm
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Life
Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists
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Space
Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success
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Space
How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?
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