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Hawking

Physics

Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking

Stephen Hawking peered deep into black holes and helped integrate the biggest ideas in physics. But the extraordinary genius was very much a man of his times

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Hawking radiation

Physics

Sneak peek at Hawking’s last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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Environment

The Overstory review – Richard Powers eco epic provokes awe

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Mind

New Call of Duty trials no-helmet immersion – using superblack paint

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Health

Contagion: How the world’s biggest flu pandemic makes sense as dance

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Humans

The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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Actors Nadi Kemp-Sayfi and Sam Redway

Life

War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best

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Spider-inspired art

Environment

Art: Why Tomás Saraceno is floating on air

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Physics

Don’t miss – a dance of death, musical exploration and maps from light

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Comment

Paywall: The business of scholarship review – analysis of a scandal

Expect to feel righteous anger and astonishment as the film Paywall exposes the dull-sounding science journal industry, hard at work pocketing your tax money

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Life

David Attenborough’s Life on Earth review – a revamped classic

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Environment

Don’t Miss: missing green, a doomed sub, and a giant fatberg

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Health

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood review – Truths about breastfeeding

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Mind

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins 2018 Royal Society Book Prize

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