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Alex Bellos wanders in his mathematical wonderland
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The world’s most beautiful birds’ eggs
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In the beginning: The story of the embryo
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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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The story of climate change gets star treatment
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Smallest subversive: Mathematical fight for our world
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The coolest biology is under the microscope
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Shakespeare: Did radical astronomy inspire Hamlet?
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Shakespeare: The godfather of modern medicine
Epilepsy, psychiatric breakdown, sleep disorders 鈥� for all the crudity of 16th-century healthcare, Shakespeare's observations still inspire doctors today
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Shakespeare: Unleashing a tempest in the brain
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A smart way to get personal with the future
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We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine
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What climate change has done to Walden’s woods
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