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How to survive doomsday (Clue: it helps to be a billionaire)

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BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more

Can you tell which one of these mice is smiling? Clue: it’s very subtle

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Giving a mouse a piece of Cheddar cheese makes it smile – and pleasure is just one of the emotions the rodent can express on its face, according to a new study. Mice, like humans, have facial expressions that can reveal their emotional state, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. The … Read more