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Health

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

A new book about shadowing a team of behavioural geneticists shows them at great pains to capture the vagaries and complexities of their tricky research

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Technology

Books chart social media’s fall from global village to villain

Culture

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Humans

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Culture

M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

Humans

Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

Culture

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Earth

Burning Planet: Fire's intriguing role throughout Earth history

Culture

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Space

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Culture

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Physics

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

Culture

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Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow

Culture

Andy Serkis in Neanderthal make-up

Humans

Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?

Culture

A Tahitian sketch of first contact

Earth

Captain Cook: The farmer’s son who re-drew the map of the world

The achievements of the eighteenth-century explorer stand up surprisingly well to modern scrutiny, finds Boyd Tonkin

News

Life

Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures

Culture

Humans

Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow

Culture

Technology

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

Culture

Humans

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

Culture

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