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Life

The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical–with superb puppets as exotic wildlife

Culture

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Health

Unsavory Truth review – exposing the food industry's abuse of science

Culture

At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times

Humans

At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times

Culture

Sean Penn and LisaGay Hamilton

Space

Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration

Culture

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Technology

What it's like to play Call of Duty in a blacker-than-black room

Culture

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Technology

The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist

Culture

Liquid Crystal Display: a beautifully broken exhibition

Earth

Liquid Crystal Display: a beautifully broken exhibition

Culture

The psychedelic science behind dreamy new Netflix hit, Maniac

Health

The psychedelic science behind dreamy new Netflix hit, Maniac

Culture

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Physics

Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

Culture

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Life

Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits

Two new books make big claims, but prove only that reports of the death of Darwinism have been greatly exaggerated

Culture

Humans

Art: an impressive new festival ushers in the End Times

Culture

Space

Red Moon review: History lessons power great new lunar future novel

Culture

Physics

Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking

Culture

Space

The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

Culture

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