Review: Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
In this compelling and wide-ranging book, the author sets out to explain the mystery of how humans evolved into cooperative apes
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Life
Review: The Smartest Animals on the Planet by Sally Boysen
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Humans
Review: Supersense by Bruce M. Hood
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Review: Animal Investigators by Laurel A. Neme
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Space
Review: The Georgian Star by Michael D. Lemonick
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Review: Shapes by Philip Ball
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Space
What will the Sun look like when it dies?
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Space
Student project captures images of Earth from space
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Physics
Stephen Hawking’s bedtime stories
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Review: The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
If you think you have a self, says the author, it is because you are tricked by your psycho-biology, which keeps track of your states, preferences and memories
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Technology
Review: Uranium by Tom Zoellner
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Review: The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
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Review: The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon
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Earth
Photography: Life and death beneath the waves
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