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The Human Body
Read the powerful first chapter of Mayhem, a memoir
Everyday science
Read a heart-breaking excerpt from the WBP2018-shortlisted book Stay With Me
The Human Body
Can you live life upside down? Revolutionary experiments in psychology
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How an extraordinary letter to Darwin spotted industrial melanism in moths
The Human Body
Could we survive in a world without microbes?
Nature
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Human Body
The Smile Stealers: 10 pictures from the history of dentistry to make you squirm
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The Tiniest Atom
The Human Body
The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Human Body
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
The Human Body
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal translated by Jessica Moore
The Human Body
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Human Body
How To Survive A Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
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Women in Science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
Nature
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
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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")
