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Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret?

8 mins | Sep 25, 2019
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Is science fact or fiction? The technology we use today was imagined by scientists of the past, so shouldn't we associate it more with fiction? Tom McLeish writing in Aeon explains why science is so dependent on the whim of imagination.

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