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Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting
Could politicians have responded better to Covid? Public health expert Devi Sridhar is both prescient and scathing
Prehistoric finds aside, palaeontologist David Hone shows how science is accelerating the pace of intriguing new revelations
Antone Martinho-Truswell makes a surprising case for humans resembling birds more than mammals. Does his argument take flight?
Andrew Doig’s compelling history of how we die and the scientific advances that arm us against disease
Thomas Halliday conjures long-vanished mammoths and dinosaurs on a journey back to the dawn of evolution
A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy
The broadcaster and geneticist takes a clear-sighted look at a troublesome ideology
From plastic squid to a plea for veganism — a round-up of books about planetary havoc and what we can do about it
Practical and reassuring tale written with eloquence and insight about a disease which for years was presumed to rob sufferers of sentience
David Chalmers’ rich and occasionally outlandish work of ‘technophilosophy’ argues that virtual reality is genuine reality
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Ananyo Bhattacharya’s biography contrasts the scientist’s genius with his hawkish leanings — and cavalier attitude to using the atomic bomb
The neuroscientist says our perceptions have little to do with intelligence and everything to do with sensing our environment to stay alive
Insects are essential to life on Earth — so what can we do to reverse their startling decline?
The Enlightenment torchbearer is eloquent in his defence of clear thinking and uncharitable to what he deems irrational belief
This romp through mathematical ideas doesn’t shy away from equations or challenging ideas but is always a model of clarity
This scientist’s plague year journal gives fresh insight into the uneasy relationship between science and politics in the UK’s fight to constrain the pandemic
Key members of Oxford’s scientific team reveal the exhaustive effort and care that went into the race to create a ‘vaccine for the world’
Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar
On its 200th anniversary, the club asked how the ideas of Malthus and Ricardo apply to climate change and income today
Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads
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