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Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

Tantalising evidence hints that key human innovations including the wheel and weaving were the outcome of, quite literally, child's play

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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling

Life

How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain

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Don't miss: a game to make you suffer and a new post-apocalyptic film

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The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas

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The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas

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Environment

Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season

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Physics

Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK’s new £50 note

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Sean Penn and LisaGay Hamilton

Space

Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration

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��è��Ƶs should use their clout to get a less bad Brexit for all

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Ivette Fuentes: How to build a quantum teleporter

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Ivette Fuentes: How to build a quantum teleporter

Teleportation is real – but it’s not what you think. Mathematical physicist Ivette Fuentes teases the science from the sci-fi

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Technology

Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud

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Space

Red Moon review: History lessons power great new lunar future novel

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Life

Don’t Miss: Paranoid sci-fi, heat-reactive art and alcohol’s evolution

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War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best

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