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This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract ...

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Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child ...

While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...