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A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

Author Stephen Asma knows how to improvise, but The Evolution of Imagination begs the question: what can unbridled thought bring to science?

Culture

Two actors on a stage

Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

Culture

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Comment

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Health

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Comment

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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Health

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science

Comment

baby being born healthy

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

For decades, women have been encouraged to give birth naturally – that means avoiding all medicines and interventions. Now the Royal College of Midwives is changing its position

Analysis

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

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Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

Health

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

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