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Inside the Samuel Johnson book prize: The science problem

Why are there so few science and technology books on the shortlists – or even longlists – of mainstream book prizes, asks one of the judges

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What is freedom in the digital age?

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What is freedom in the digital age?

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How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics

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How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics

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<em>What To Think About Machines That Think</em> gets you thinking

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What To Think About Machines That Think gets you thinking

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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

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<em>Back to the Future</em>: Does physics of Marty's time travel add up?

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Back to the Future: Does physics of Marty's time travel add up?

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Ann Veronica Janssen's room of fog bumps you through the rainbow

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Ann Veronica Janssen's room of fog bumps you through the rainbow

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<em>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics</em> is lean, lucid and enchanting

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is lean, lucid and enchanting

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<em>The Secret Lives of Bats</em>: The adventures of the real batman

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The Secret Lives of Bats: The adventures of the real batman

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The best pictures from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015-16

A battle of foxes, a swarm of jellyfish and a mayfly massacre are among the best images from this year's competition

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NeuroTribes: How autism has been badly misunderstood

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Strange Tools: What can art tell us about who we are?

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How fish dodged extinction's bullet

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Why the struggle for water is a global issue

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