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Humans

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

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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

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Earth

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

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Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

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Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

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Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

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Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

News

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Humans

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

Scotch aficionados know that adding a little water to their dram can bring out the flavours – now we have glimpsed more of the chemistry behind it

News

Humans

Meet the man giving people psychedelics for science

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Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

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Earth

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

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Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency

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