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Philosophy, sociology and religion

The reality of open access

Michael Banks looks at how governments are implementing open-access policies

The new idols

Robert P Crease wonders who would today be on Francis Bacon's list of "idols" that hamper our study of nature

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

Conceptual image showing the outline of a face and glowing lights

Consciousness from the ground up

Werner Loewenstein's Physics in Mind, reviewed by Seth Lloyd

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

Measuring culture

Physicists can measure objects but, asks Robert P Crease, can they measure values too?

What is the anthropic principle?

Roberto Trotta explains why it seems so unlikely that we exist

An artwork by Eric J Heller based on a quantum chaos map

The quantum moment

Robert P Crease on why quantum mechanics is now as culturally significant as Newtonian mechanics

Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive?

Martin Archer tackles this famous paradox of quantum mechanics

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