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8 January 2020

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at London’s Royal Institution at 7 pm on 13 January, when physicist and author Sonia Contera explains how nanotechnology will transform our health and extend our longevity.

beach — Kate McMillan/Arcade at Bush House

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, from 13 January at Bush House Arcade in London, is an immersive, film-based installation by Kate McMillan, set in a future virtually abandoned by humanity. You can even explore the washed-up debris shown in the film.

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(Atlantic Books) by neurologist Allan Ropper and writer Brian Burrell explains how teasing apart two maladies, syphilis and hysteria, generated insights that underpin today’s ideas about mental health.

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