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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

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing shows how people worldwide make a living from mushrooms given as prized gifts in Japan

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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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Lithium dreams: The surreal landscapes where batteries are born

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Lithium dreams: The surreal landscapes where batteries are born

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

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Birth month affects risk of developing dementia later in life

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Birth month affects risk of developing dementia later in life

People in Germany born in winter have a 7 per cent lower dementia risk than those born in summer – which may be the result of variable factors like air quality

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Squirrel monkeys teach themselves to eat and drink from a cup

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

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14 ways the UK has backtracked on climate pledges this year

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How fish dodged extinction's bullet

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