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Why We Remember review: A surprising and expert guide to memory

Are memories ever really true or false? Is social media disrupting how we remember? Does memory shape creativity? Find out in an essential new guide to memory by leading researcher Charan Ranganath

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'Play With Me' series

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Annie Bot review: A sharp take on a sex robot that becomes human

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In Frank Herbert’s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight

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In Frank Herbert’s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight

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An animation of the primitive Earth in the process of formation, more than four billion years ago. We view the newborn world from its troubled surface a sea of lava dotted with volcanoes spewing more lava, ash and smoke into the atmosphere. Meteorites fall frequently, illuminating the black, lifeless, surface rocks. And in the sky, the Moon -- much closer to us then than it is now -- endures a similar bombardment.

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The Story of Earth's Climate review: 25 discoveries tell tangled tale

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A close-up view of a burial trench between rows of individual graves, excavated between the concrete foundations of the Royal Mint, from the excavation of the Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London, view looking west. (Photo by MOLA/Getty Images)

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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages

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Father and daughter sitting at kitchen table near window in discussion

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Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

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New Scientist recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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51�� recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - A City on Mars book jacket

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51�� recommends: A City on Mars and True Detective

The books, TV, games and more that 51�� staff have enjoyed this week

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Supercommunicators review: Learning how to change deeply held beliefs

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Wise Animals review: Exploring the entwined worlds of humans and tech

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Amid (more) Hugo awards controversy, let's remember some past greats

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What is love? A new book finds we still don't really know

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