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A boy and a girl looking out of a train window

Humans

Perfect people: How tomorrow’s children will make babies

When it comes to making babies, is it all over for sex? The rise of fertility technology suggests so, argues The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

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Photographic contact sheet showing images of a doorway, a hanging coat and a window in a derelict house

Humans

Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales

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Click festival

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

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Technology

Ancient arts trump game-playing in virtual-reality documentaries

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Life

Richard Dawkins’s biomorphs come back to life

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amazing Chanel wedding dress in cream with very long train

Technology

How New York fashion show owes its success to old encyclopaedia

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chimp

Environment

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

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An exotic, colourful buffet arrangement

Earth

Pests for dinner: Taking down invasive species a bite at a time

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Space

Idle Motion’s Voyager struggles to clear the tower

Space exploration is a rich subject for theatre, but London's latest spacefaring production carries more cargo than it can handle

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Earth

The Oracle of Oil: The man who predicted peak oil

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Environment

This is Your Brain on Parasites: strong stories, shaky science

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Humans

It’s not funny being female: A famous comic examines womanhood

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Humans

Can video games really create new knowledge?

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