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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?

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Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

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Letters from Charles Darwin

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'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

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Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds

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AI-created scene showing driver's eye view from a Mercedes car in a town centre

Technology

AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories

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Al Gore

Earth

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

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Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

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Life

Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

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Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

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Life

Prehistoric creatures dazzle in recreated art nouveau murals

Ichthyosaurs soaring over the waves like dolphins may not be scientifically accurate, but these painstakingly repaired murals from Berlin Aquarium are history in their own right

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Humans

Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past

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Earth

The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

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Physics

Mathematics has a bad hair day

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Futuristic artwork captures sounds to celebrate famous airfield

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