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Life

Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed

Humans turn out to have the strongest sense of rhythm of all animals, says a new book, which makes strong evolutionary connections between music and language

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Life

Don’t miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy

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Mind

Speaking at least one other language may make us more humane

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Clockwork Orange

Life

Don’t miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

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Space

Antony Gormley’s virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon

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Health

Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos

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Technology

How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever

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Life

Don’t miss: Shark crime, optical games and dairy in the cross hairs

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Environment

The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US

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Earth

Don’t miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution

Check out new books charting the state of our planet, see a movie thriller with a quantum physics twist, and launch your own robot uprising against humankind

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Technology

The mighty T. rex comes to terrifying life, complete with feathers

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Technology

China’s great firewall and the war to control the internet

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Health

How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience

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Life

Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

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