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Artificial minds may have very different experiences, needs and desires to our own (Credit: Noel Celis/Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The monster that you should let eat you
By Richard Fisher
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Made on Earth
How paper is helping to fight Covid-19
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Future Inc
How flying cars could change the world
By Adrienne Bernhard
Microscope view of protein (Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/SPL/Getty Images)
Biology

Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life

By Michael Marshall

Covid-19

The cells from WI-38 were never restricted, which means they could be shared freely with scientists around the world (Credit: Andrew Brookes/Getty Images)
Immune Response
The cells that saved 10 million lives
By Zaria Gorvett
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Immune Response
The strange ingredients in vaccines
By Zaria Gorvett
Research has shown that even when lonely people do socialise, their isolation warps their perspective (Credit: Kenny Williamson/Getty Images)
Psychology
Why solitude changes how you think
By Zaria Gorvett

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