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Space history’s dark ages • We must preserve space age artefacts for future generations – but who will foot the bill?
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Turing versus The Traitors • I came up with a mathematical model I hoped would help me win The Traitors. Unfortunately, events then got in the way, says Hannah Fry
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Losing touch • A new book argues that we are outsourcing our thinking to AI, with dangerous consequences for our brains.
Things you people wouldn’t believe • A new Blade Runner TV series is out this month. Sci-fi columnist (and superfan) Emily H. Wilson rereads the source material, Philip K. Dick’s seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Back to the past • Quantum physics assumes the past doesn’t matter. But if that’s is wrong, we might solve one of the deepest riddles in physics, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
"I felt this looming presence, a shadow-like creature" • After Baland Jalal experienced a terrifying episode of sleep paralysis, he decided to become a neuroscientist and study it. He tells Grace Wade what he has learned about the deep mind-body connection
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