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Exploring animals’ emotional experiences

Jonathan Balcombe's The Exultant Ark is an exploration of the nascent research into animal pleasure, replete with emotive photographs

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Cool viruses from pox to pandemics

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The birth and rise of batteries

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The modern marvel of magnetic levitation

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From stroke survivor to compulsive artist

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Virtual architecture built in computer-cut cardboard

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An artist who had a radioactive imagination

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Funny findings: an exploration of why we laugh

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The wonder of water

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Our dysfunctional romance with plastic

In her exhaustively researched book Plastic, Susan Freinkel examines our long, complicated and increasingly dysfunctional love affair with the material

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Google’s inner workings

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Poetry of material violence

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An evolutionary explanation of human behaviour

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Dream psychiatrist: Freud was out to lunch

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