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In the beginning: The story of the embryo

The embryo was little more than a hypothesis until the microscope came along. Jane Maienschien explores early life in Embryos Under the Microscope

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Earth

No man’s lands: A cabinet of geographical curiosities

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Synthetic biology gets reborn as an aesthetic dream

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Physics

Smallest subversive: Mathematical fight for our world

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Life

The coolest biology is under the microscope

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Technology

A smart way to get personal with the future

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Health

We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine

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Earth

What climate change has done to Walden’s woods

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Humans

How ancient needs still drive our weird ways

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Mind

Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's appeal for showing information

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Humans

Bite-sized chunks of brain science don’t quite satisfy

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Earth

How climate pain is being spun into corporate gain

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Health

Catching cancer: The riveting quest for a killer virus

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Earth

Loving the alien: A defence of non-native species

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