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NewsWhy Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction
What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me. Our feelings about a new gadget follow a familiar cycle: there is excitement at a fresh toy, then confusion as ...
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NewsWant to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy
In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation. JARED DIAMOND is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He started out working in electrophysiology and became a ...
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NewsAngela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really ...
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NewsTrue AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity, asks Marcus du Sautoy. In October 2018, a portrait of Edmond Belamy sold at Christie’s in New York for $432,500, nearly 45 times its maximum estimated price. ...
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FeaturesThe Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why
For 30 years, one man has been obsessed with the whisperings of the aurora borealis. His search for its origins may finally be over
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ResearchRobotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad
The rapid rise of robot-aided surgery ignores the fact that high-tech gadgets don’t always improve treatment outcomes but do increase costs
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FeaturesHow Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets
Earth’s nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life
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FeaturesKoalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross
With wildfires on the rise, endangered koalas are more threatened than ever, but a new treatment for burned animals offers a ray of hope. We go inside the world’s only koala hospital
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NewsAargau Verkehr AG
Public transport company operating across Aargau canton. Amongst its operations are two formerly independent light railways, the Wynental-und Suhrentalbahn, to Schöftland and Menziken, running up parallel valleys south of SBB at Aarau.
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NewsWhat can I do about climate change?
In a new report published in September 2018, the world’s leading climate scientists made their starkest warning so far: our current actions are not enough for us to meet our target of 1.5C of warming. We need to do more. So we don’t need to ask whether climate change is ...
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NewsEllie Goulding Your Song
Ellie Goulding’s cover of the Elton John song ”Your Song” was the soundtrack to a collection of images showing people preparing gifts for their loved ones. Most notably, two parents attempt to secretly carry a rocking horse up some stairs whilst their children watch television. The advert concludes with a ...
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NewsBuster the Boxer
We’ve had the tear-jerking tales of Monty the penguin, a bear and a hare and a man on the moon, but this year John Lewis is pinning its hopes for a bumper Christmas on Buster the boxer, a comedy bouncing dog. Buster is the star turn in the department store’s ...
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NewsMonty the penguin
John Lewis unveils its latest festive advert, featuring a young boy and what appears to be his pet penguin playing together in the lead up to Christmas Day. After the success of last year’s Bear and the Hare animated ad, which attracted more than 10m views on YouTube, the department ...
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NewsJohn Lewis sets target of zero carbon emissions by 2050
The John Lewis Partnership has pledged to reduce its operational carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 at the latest.
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FeaturesPembrokeshire Coast National Park
The only national park in the United Kingdom established primarily because of the coastline; the Park occupies more than a third of the area of the county. It includes the Preseli Hills in the north as well as the 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Industry is nowadays focused on agriculture, oil ...
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