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How do the stories we tell shape our experience of chronic illness? Katherine Brabon charts an elusive search for ‘the cure’

How do we understand life on Earth? A prize-winning biography charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’

How do we understand life on Earth? An 18th-century rivalry charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’

Our memories are unreliable, limited and suggestible – and it’s a good thing too

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been called the ‘AI Oppenheimer’ – but he dismisses concerns: AI is just ‘processing data’

Your next summer read and our award-winning podcasts – what you should read, watch, see and listen to this week

Escape to space with the ultra-rich, or live frugally amid eco-disaster? Jennifer Mills imagines a divided near future

Junk food is addictive. Drugs like Ozempic treat addiction. But when will we tackle Big Food like we did Big Tobacco?

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

3 memoirs illustrate the peculiar lives of celebrities

Stories about repeating history – what to watch, read and see this week