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Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

Humans hate cheats and deceivers, but as a new book amply illustrates, it's one of the best survival strategies in the natural world

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The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea

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A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us

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NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

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Shock of the Anthropocene: Winners and losers in new world era

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Verse in the universe: The scientific power of poetry

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Verse in the universe: The scientific power of poetry

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<em>The Society of Genes</em>: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

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The Society of Genes: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

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The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night

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The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night

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<em>Home</em>: It's where the heart is – and now we know why

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Home: It's where the heart is – and now we know why

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<em>The Visit</em>: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

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The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

We're prepared for visiting aliens, but not for the feelings they could prompt, says Michael Madsen, the film-maker behind The Visit: An Alien Encounter

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Dark Matter and the dinosaurs: A quest for grown-ups

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Phones could be making us less human, but does it matter?

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Health

Why we need to go on talking about trauma

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How poetry can be a shortcut to truths science tries to discover

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