Andrea Sabbadini obituary
Psychoanalyst and writer who explored connections between film and the unconscious in a festival and several books
Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days
Everything Evolves by Mark Vellend review – can Darwin explain JD Vance?
Why evolutionary theory should be applied to peacocks, politics, iPhones and quite a lot in between
Why antibiotics are like fossil fuels
They helped create the modern world but are dangerously overused. How can we harness them sustainably?
‘Women have more power than they think’: self-help superstar Mel Robbins on success, survival and silencing her critics
The lawyer turned motivational speaker fills arenas with her promise that you can always turn things around – even if her ideas aren’t exactly new. What is it about her that makes people listen?
Stuart Farrimond obituary
Other lives: Author and TV personality who was able to explain complex scientific topics in a way that lay people could readily understand
Brian Fagan obituary
Author of popular archaeology books who helped to shape our understanding of ancient human history
Readers reply: Why can some people solve anagrams immediately?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Steven Rose obituary
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?
The big idea: should we embrace boredom?
Smartphones offer instant stimulation, but do they silence a deeper message?
Are we hardwired to fall for autocrats?
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
The big idea: will we ever make life in the lab?
Intriguing advances hold out the possibility – but first we have to agree on what ‘life’ means