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Seventh Son author Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m 3.7 per cent Neanderthal’

Our 91av Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller  exploring ethics, genetics and what it is to be human.

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Male Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

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Why birds’ eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange

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A male lion and a cub

Life

Do animals know that sex leads to babies?

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Space

How to see the Orionid meteor shower in October and November

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Environment

Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billion snow crabs

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Life

Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to a caterpillar boom

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NorthPole PCIe printed circuit

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IBM’s brain-inspired chip could be the fastest at running AI yet

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Artist's impression of the path the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A took between the distant galaxy where it originated and Earth, in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms (not to scale)

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A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling for 8 billion years

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Farmland being farmed

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Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in northern wilderness

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Environment

Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster than they did in the 1970s

An analysis of all tropical storms in the Atlantic between 1971 and 2020 has confirmed that hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly, giving people less time to prepare

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Technology

Exoskeleton allows wheelchair user to walk

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Technology

Hundreds of chatbots could show us how to make social media less toxic

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Technology

UK’s global AI summit must provide solutions rather than suggestions

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Why free will doesn’t exist, according to Robert Sapolsky

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