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Can you weigh the world? Revolutionary experiments in physics
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Meet the robots taking on tasks we’d rather not
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Laughter: Some Eminency in Ourselves
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Read the powerful first chapter of Mayhem, a memoir
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Read a heart-breaking excerpt from the WBP2018-shortlisted book Stay With Me
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Can you live life upside down? Revolutionary experiments in psychology
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Could we survive in a world without microbes?
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I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
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The Tiniest Atom
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
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Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal translated by Jessica Moore
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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![An annulet moth by M. Viratala [Copyrighted free use], via Wikimedia Commons](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2018/08/annulet-6b1a3d8.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413 "An annulet moth by M. Viratala [Copyrighted free use], via Wikimedia Commons")
