Can a machine think?
Susan Curtis reviews The Road to Conscious Machines: the Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
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Could ammonia be the secret to shipping carbon-free?
James McKenzie wonders if ammonia could hold the key to greener shipping
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Half a life
Jess Wade reviews the film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi
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A call for unity within particle physics
Regardless of which high-energy collider design gets the CERN council's approval, Tessa Charles argues that proponents of competing proposals need to work well together
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A stance against forced retirement
Paul Ewart says there is little evidence that forcing active physicists to retire “frees up” positions
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The vagabond physicist
Andrew Robinson reviews Einstein in Bohemia by Michael Gordin
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Climate change is a ‘Pascal’s wager’: so how will you act?
Businesses must take action on climate change, which is why – says James McKenzie – it’s an example of a “Pascal’s wager”
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Worlds beyond Earth
The Hayden Planetarium’s new space show has high production values and a strikingly earthy flavour, finds Robert P Crease
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Death by prime numbers
David Appell reviews Prime Suspects: the Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville and Robert J Lewis
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The secret to flying carbon-free
James McKenzie wonders how realistic it will be to de-carbonize air travel
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