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Why We Remember review: A surprising and expert guide to memory

Are memories ever really true or false? Is social media disrupting how we remember? Does memory shape creativity? Find out in an essential new guide to memory by leading researcher Charan Ranganath

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Annie Bot review: A sharp take on a sex robot that becomes human

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'Play With Me' series

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In Frank Herbert’s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight

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DE0GFY Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) on a palm frond

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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga review: Hunting for giants in Indonesia

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An animation of the primitive Earth in the process of formation, more than four billion years ago. We view the newborn world from its troubled surface a sea of lava dotted with volcanoes spewing more lava, ash and smoke into the atmosphere. Meteorites fall frequently, illuminating the black, lifeless, surface rocks. And in the sky, the Moon -- much closer to us then than it is now -- endures a similar bombardment.

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The Story of Earth's Climate review: 25 discoveries tell tangled tale

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New Scientist recommends the Never Post podcast

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New Scientist recommends the Never Post podcast

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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New Scientist recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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New Scientist recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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The Arc of Oblivion review: Offbeat film about preserving our world

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A close-up view of a burial trench between rows of individual graves, excavated between the concrete foundations of the Royal Mint, from the excavation of the Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London, view looking west. (Photo by MOLA/Getty Images)

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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages

The archaeologist's latest book on what bones teach us about Britain's history not only provides the grisly facts, but helps us feel them

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Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

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Dune Part Two review: Thrills sure, but not weird enough to be good

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Dune Part Two review: Thrills sure, but not weird enough to be good

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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