The reality of open access
Michael Banks looks at how governments are implementing open-access policies
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The new idols
Robert P Crease wonders who would today be on Francis Bacon's list of "idols" that hamper our study of nature
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Is creativity as important in science as it is in art?
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Is there a difference between climate scepticism and climate denial?
Simon Buckle on the views people take on the science of climate change
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Consciousness from the ground up
Werner Loewenstein's Physics in Mind, reviewed by Seth Lloyd
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Life among the MERtians
What's it like to work on Mars? Stephen J Pyne reviews an anthropologist's account of the team behind the Mars Exploration Rovers
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Measuring culture
Physicists can measure objects but, asks Robert P Crease, can they measure values too?
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What is the anthropic principle?
Roberto Trotta explains why it seems so unlikely that we exist
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The quantum moment
Robert P Crease on why quantum mechanics is now as culturally significant as Newtonian mechanics
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Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive?
Martin Archer tackles this famous paradox of quantum mechanics
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