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Technology

How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. This time, Rowan Hooper takes us to the early 2030s, when a technological step change enabled us to produce all the food we needed without the use of animals

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We need transparency from the companies disseminating misinformation

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Never mind the health benefits, there are green reasons to stop vaping

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Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope

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If we could talk to whales, what might they say?

Life

If we could talk to whales, what might they say?

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The best livestream so far this year? A corpse flower slowly blooming

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Voters everywhere back green policies. Politicians should take note

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What happens at a black hole's edge? It depends on your perspective

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Mind

Could we share dreams by synchronising REM sleep?

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What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts

Earth

What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts

Exhausted by today's political and environmental instability, Annalee Newitz investigated what a future Earth might look like. Get ready for green mining, soft cities and robo-taxis

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Cool solutions could head off the climate-damaging rush for air con

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Physics

How physics is helping us to explain why time always moves forwards

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Life

Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?

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What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal

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