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  • Do robots dream of coffee breaks?

    New fiction from Nik Papageorgiou

  • Parallel universes

    New Zealand scientists and writers come together

  • Learning science from fiction

    Jon Turney explores the power of the story

  • King for a day

    New fiction from rpg

  • Faking it

    Paul Andrews reviews Intuition by Allegra Goodman

  • Clouds

    New short fiction from Tom Mahony

• Past highlights

  • Stardom

    Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The day after today

    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Dr. Flirt

    Can a PhD attract women?

  • Bad cop

    Guardian columnist defrocks the pseudoscientists

  • Unkind literature

    Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys

  • The Glider

    Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up

  • Marketing lab lit fiction

    An experiment with Waterstone's

  • Sex in the lab

    What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

• Latest blogs

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    Jenny  4 Mar 2010
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  • Drinking the Kool-Aid

    Bill  23 Feb 2010
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  • The laboratory diet plan

    Jenny  15 Feb 2010

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