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• Primordial black holes and an unprecedented discovery

  Is it possible that we have witnessed the merger of two massive black holes?

• ‘‘Saying something is a miracle is a failure of imagination’’

  Q&A with philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett.

• Remains of the DNA

  For the first time, scientists have retrieved the DNA of extinct humans from sediments in caves.

• Can humans survive on earth?

  Professor Stephen Hawking claims we must colonise another planet in the next 100 years.

• What do algorithms know about you?

  Q&A with Ed Finn, author of "What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing".

• The Mpemba effect, ant navigation, and the mystery of pure gold

  Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.

• Why physics isn't dead

  Relativity and quantum theory help us make sense of the universe – but physics still has huge mysteries left to unravel.

• Will progress kill humanism?

  Yuval Noah Harari’s new book explores the idea that scientific knowledge might one day undermine democratic values.

• "Without the evolution of locomotion there would be no sex, no photosynthesis, no ecology"

  Q&A with evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson.

• Three parent babies, the gamification of protein, and mapping matter

  Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.