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Are they the canaries?

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The body is not a machine

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Shocked

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Beautiful monsters

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Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice

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Three ways to smell cancer

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It didn’t have to be this way

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Chemobrain is real. Here’s what to expect after cancer treatment

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No patient is an island

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Rats are us

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Neither person nor cadaver

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Polyphonic Mozart

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A sage on the ward

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Nueva vida

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Why synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones

Pills dissolve

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In defence of antidepressants

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We need worms

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Essays and videos exploring physics, evolution, cosmology and other frontiers in science

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology. 