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Physics

Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator

Joel Frohlich

A woman sitting on stairs with a designer handbag and gold trainers, wearing black leggings and a colourful jumper.

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Economics

Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Black and white photo of two vintage cars on a rural road, lined with trees and grass, with two people walking in the distance.

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Cognition and intelligence

What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence

Kate Fehlhaber

A painting of five labourers working on a construction site with tools and machinery, while a scenic landscape is seen in the background.

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Social psychology

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

Clifton Mark

A person in a lab coat holding multiple vials and labelled containers with blue gloved hands in a laboratory setting.

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Medicine

Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice

Jacob Stegenga

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War and peace

What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?

Thomas White

Elderly Chinese women dancing in a row on a sunny promenade with mountains in the background and seagulls flying above.

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Medicine

Lifestyle changes, not a magic pill, can reverse Alzheimer’s

Clayton Dalton

Vintage photo of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in hats and suits walking down a street with trees and buildings in the background.

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History of science

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’

Jim Baggott

A spacecraft orbiting Saturn with its rings visible above and the planet’s atmosphere below, in dark space.

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Philosophy of science

Why philosophy is so important in science education

Subrena E Smith

A metal car game piece on the “In Jail” square of a Monopoly board. The background shows blurred text and board squares.

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Sports and games

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism

Kate Raworth

Painting showing three characters: a poor man, a child holding a newspaper and a rich man in a car smoking a pipe, industrial backdrop.

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Personality

The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology

Christian Jarrett

Diagram of the solar system showing the positions of spacecrafts Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, New Horizons, and planets.

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Cosmology

Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi

Michael Strauss