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diagnosis TV show

Health

Netflix’s Diagnosis is a real-life House with added crowdsourcing

Netflix's new show Diagnosis is a moving and powerful attempt to help people with unusual medical conditions find new routes to their longed-for diagnosis

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Margaret Atwood

Humans

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments’ anti-science world is a grim warning

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Mind

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

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Technology

How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain

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Life

Don’t miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas

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space cruiser

Space

Sci-fi film Aniara’s best trick is to make the future feel like now

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Mind

How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions

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glass car

Technology

From driverless cars to AI bridges, are we giving up too much control?

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Don’t Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

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US town

Life

This month’s top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

In her latest sci-fi column, Helen Marshall finds simmering revolution against the tech moguls in two new novels, The Warehouse and The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man

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Health

The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women’s sexual health

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Life

Don’t Miss: Design for survival, lab fraud, and summer magic

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Comment

From Prey to Observation: Why games set on space stations are a thrill

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Humans

How walking helped humans take over the planet

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