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The fact and fiction of discovery

Litmus, edited by Ra Page, seamlessly combines short stories with essays from eminent scientists to give an historical look at scientific discoveries

Doctoring under the influence

From war to hyperreal art

Perils of baby sex preference

Luck in Google’s early days

Stealing moon rocks from NASA

Life in the tangled Everglades

Humans

Musical life of Elizabethan mathematician and magician

Bayes’s rule: a statistical thriller

What does consciousness feel like?

In Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell, psychologist J. Kevin O'Regan explains why sensations feel the way they do

The pioneers of Antarctic research

Inheritance that’s not just in the genes

What happened to hysteria?

When flower power met quantum theory