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How air conditioning overwhelmed its hothead haters

It was a fight between vested interests and institutional boneheadedness, but as Cool: How air conditioning changed everything explains, common sense won out

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Earth

Does this climate narrative really change anything?

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Was Aristotle the inventor of science?

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Environment

The creepy crawly story of life on Earth

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Environment

A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens

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Socrates among the psychopaths

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The war for our attention in a land of infinite choice

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Health

A manifesto for playing god with human evolution

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Life

Harness randomness to succeed at life

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Space

Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket

Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war's scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the world's first spacecraft

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Humans

Biography of our ingenious species is full of twists

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Earth

Nature and conservation from a perfect point of view

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Environment

Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Physics

Perfect harmonies: How music was built into science

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