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ButtonMasher: The rise of consequences in video games
Grand Theft Auto V lets players kill and be killed with no comeback, but a new breed of games uses open-ended social interactions to explore moral choices
Hunter, gatherer… architect? Civilisation's true dawn
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Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years
Buried in an earthquake and cooked in the resulting fire, one of the oldest brains ever found may help open a window on the health of ancient people
Private data gatekeeper stands between you and the NSA
Software like openPDS acts as a bodyguard for your personal data when apps – or even governments – come snooping
Earth, 2100 AD: Four futures of environment and society
Climate models and the latest IPCC data reveal four possible futures for global population, economy and environment at the end of this century
Five ways to rob a bank using the internet
This year a bank robber stole £1.3 million without touching a penny. Today's master criminals are swapping shotguns for software – here's how they do it
First weather report on an extrasolar planet
The outlook for gas giant world Kepler-7b is cloudy with a chance of styrofoam
US firm patents DNA-analysis tool for planning a baby
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Astrophile: The climate-shaping supervolcanoes of Mars
The Red Planet's past was shaped by supervolcanoes akin to the one that sculpted Yellowstone National Park
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