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New 杏吧原创’s 2016 Sci-Fi-London competition: the results

Discover who made the final shortlist in our film pitch competition and the eventual winner, who takes away two tickets to New 杏吧原创 Live this September

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The play X will have you clock-watching – but in a good way

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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

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Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart

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Follow the life of the last man on the moon

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The ‘three hares’ motif is an ancient mystery for our times

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Being a beast: What happens when people live as other animals?

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The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

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Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

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Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

Thousands of "unfit" people were forcibly sterilised in the US in the 20th century. Two new books show just how much rigour we need to avoid modern eugenics

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Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics 鈥� but only so far

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Environment

A beguiling natural history of North America’s great forests

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How two dead power stations fuel the art of catastrophe

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Six GIFs about things you didn’t know about GIFs

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