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Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

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Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

Imagine a New York where people live to 300 but want more, enjoy the 100th episode of a hit radio show, and celebrate atomic number 16 at a show about sulphur

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cave

Earth

Globetrotting film sends scientists on "relay race" of inquiry

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Remains

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The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science

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A pile of open books

Technology

How authors are gaming Amazon’s algorithms with 3000-page books

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phone users

Technology

Censored: Why China’s online oversight is anything but crude

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lab

Health

Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab

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Bohr

Physics

What Is Real? A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics

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scene from Emma

Humans

Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

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blossom

Life

Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty

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thoughts

Humans

Your mind is not an iceberg – there's nothing under the surface

We make up our minds one thought at a time, according to a new book. But challenging the entrenched idea that our thoughts run “deep” will take strong, new arguments

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Space

Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

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Humans

Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress

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Health

The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century

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Humans

The Strange Order of Things: How we feel our way to being human

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