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Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

Transhumanists could not stop for Death but they kindly stopped for Mark O'Connell, who has captured their beliefs and anxieties in聽his Wellcome Book Prize winning聽travelogue

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Health

Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow

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Earth

Magical regrowth: Kew Gardens opens revamped Temperate House

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Humans

Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

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Technology

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

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Snails in performance

Environment

The world’s first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut

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Earth

How can India clean up when all of its waste has an afterlife?

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Environment

Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring鈥檚 simple beauty

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Video-game players

Humans

Now Play This! A festival that’s game for anything

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Carlo Rovelli

Physics

Carlo Rovelli: physics’ literary superstar makes us rethink time

The Order of Time, an elegant demolition job of our ideas about the subject, looks set to become the latest bestseller from the cultured mind of Carlo Rovelli

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Environment

Yorkshire’s Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show

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Humans

Your mind is not an iceberg 鈥� there’s nothing under the surface

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Health

The Heart of the Matter: An artful show helps heal broken hearts

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Health

The End of Epidemics: It’s all about the money

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