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oil and gas

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Exploring animals' emotional experiences

Jonathan Balcombe's The Exultant Ark is an exploration of the nascent research into animal pleasure, replete with emotive photographs

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The birth and rise of batteries

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Virtual architecture built in computer-cut cardboard

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Funny findings: an exploration of why we laugh

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An artist who had a radioactive imagination

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From stroke survivor to compulsive artist

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Woman and newborn baby

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New clues to preventing miscarriage or pre-term births

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Google's inner workings

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Our dysfunctional romance with plastic

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Cellphones get help to India's secret sex workers

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Cellphones get help to India's secret sex workers

Most of India's 2.8 million prostitutes own cellphones – making it easier to contact them about HIV tests

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An evolutionary explanation of human behaviour

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Poetry of material violence

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The wonder of water

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Dream psychiatrist: Freud was out to lunch

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