Inside the Samuel Johnson book prize: The science problem
Why are there so few science and technology books on the shortlists 鈥� or even longlists 鈥� of mainstream book prizes, asks one of the judges
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The Master Algorithm: A world remade by machines that learn
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What is freedom in the digital age?
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Earth
How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics
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What To Think About Machines That Think gets you thinking
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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere
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Back to the Future: Does physics of Marty’s time travel add up?
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Ann Veronica Janssen’s room of fog bumps you through the rainbow
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is lean, lucid and enchanting
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The Secret Lives of Bats: The adventures of the real batman
Merlin Tuttle defied death by charging elephant, damaged his lungs by inhaling ammonia and braved spear-waving hunters 鈥� all to transform the bat's image
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The best pictures from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015-16
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How fish dodged extinction’s bullet
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Strange Tools: What can art tell us about who we are?
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Why the struggle for water is a global issue
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