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books and art

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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

trees

Life

Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller

Culture

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HIV jumped to the US in 1970 - 10 years before it was spotted

News

Xudong Wang holds a piece of his energy-generating board in a lab

Technology

Energy-generating floorboard lights up 35 LEDs with one footstep

News

Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

Earth

Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

News

An e-reader screen the size of a Post-it note with a white border stands on a desk

Technology

E-paper display runs on office lights and never needs charging

News

art installation

Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Culture

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

News

Ground Zero

Humans

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

Culture

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

Humans

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

It’s not all downhill after men hit their physical peak – older guys could explain human longevity, argues a new book about male ageing

Culture

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Regulars

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Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

News

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

News

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Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves

Analysis

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