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New Scientist Live: Photographs from the show floor

New Scientist Live: Photographs from the show floor

12 October 2022

New Scientist's flagship event returns after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Here is our pick of the show, from a robot dog to Astronomer Royal Martin Rees telling us how science will save the world
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Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union

26 February 2020

“Sleep-learning,” we observed half a century ago “is big business in the Soviet Union.” A slew of studies, experiments and trials from behind the Iron Curtain showed an enthusiasm for pumping information, such as lists of foreign words, into people whilst...

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