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Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

Bananaworld and two other books on theoretical physics show that intuition and the smart metaphors it spawns can never replace serious maths

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Life

A beguiling natural history of North America's great forests

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Six GIFs about things you didn't know about GIFs

Technology

Six GIFs about things you didn't know about GIFs

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Humans

A Natural History of Human Morality: Why being good is a miracle

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Life

Animal Electricity: How the forces inside cells actually behave

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The Timeless shop front

Life

Pop-up show apes beauty brands to highlight egg-freezing issues

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Beyond the Fence musical

Technology

Beyond The Fence: how computers spawned a musical

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Humans

The Persuaders: How we let the PR industry control our minds

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Bed Down Location, showing time-lapse video projections of night skies in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan

Technology

How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance

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Elements

Humans

The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee

As an exhibition of notorious magician John Dee’s books continues, Philip Ball argues that he warrants a place in science's history

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Life

Why Only Us: The language paradox

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Technology

Art tries to pass the Turing test

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Earth

Why even catastrophic events can’t change attitudes to climate

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Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

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