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Man in crowd holding figure 14

Humans

Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

An analysis of nouns used over 300 years of writing shows their popularity regularly rising and falling, which may hint at a pattern to how language evolves

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Life

Great Christmas books: Our guide to gifts that keep on giving

Culture

Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s <i>The Tempest</i> a messy triumph

Technology

Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s The Tempest a messy triumph

Culture

Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science

Life

Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science

Culture

Obama/Cameron

Humans

Playing politics: exposing the flaws of nudge thinking

Culture

scurvey

Health

Scurvy: A tale of the sailors' curse and a cure that got lost

Culture

Lem

Technology

Stanisław Lem: The man with the future inside him

Features

old street scene

Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

Culture

beach

Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

Culture

fuzzy woman

Humans

A Day in the Life of the Brain hunts consciousness

Susan Greenfield's latest book struggles to find a different solution to how the "water" of objective neural activity becomes "wine" of consciousness

Culture

Life

Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller

Culture

Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Culture

Humans

Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow

Culture

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

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