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Articles by Philip Ball

Does DNA really define destiny?
Philip Ball / October 15, 2018
Robert Plomin's Blueprint argues—correctly—that genes have a profound effect on human traits from intelligence to mental health. But what happens in our lives matters, too
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Where has all the sperm gone?
Philip Ball / July 31, 2018
Sperm counts have been decreasing for decades. Nobody seems to know why it’s happening, and not much is being done to find out, but we could be facing a public health disaster
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Is there life on Mars? A staggering new find just improved the odds
Philip Ball / July 25, 2018
Italian astronomers have detected a shallow body of liquid water beneath the planet’s South Polar ice cap
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String theory is a fashionable theory but unprovable
A scientist's crisis of faith
Philip Ball / July 16, 2018
Physics has lost its way argues a prominent German scientist
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Can assisted reproduction technology help us save the Northern white rhino?
Philip Ball / July 5, 2018
With only two living females, the Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. Now, scientists are attempting to use assisted reproductive technology to save it
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Astronomers have released a remarkable new image of planetary formation
Philip Ball / July 3, 2018
There’s a taste of the sublime in the photograph of this extrasolar world
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How special is human existence? The answer could lie in multiverse theory
Philip Ball / June 12, 2018
New calculations shed light on one of science’s great puzzles
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The neuroscience of the Neanderthal

Philip Ball / May 17, 2018
Earlier this year Prospect science writer Philip Ball had his own “mini-brain” grown in a laboratory. Researchers now plan to put the method to different use, and in doing so learn more about an...
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What a gloriously offbeat social experiment in China can tell us about the human psyche
Philip Ball / April 27, 2018
Northern and southern Chinese think differently—and the reason goes back centuries
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The government is failing dismally in its duty to protect UK science from Brexit
Philip Ball / April 2, 2018
A full damage limitation plan should have been drawn up months ago
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