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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition

Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver

Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.

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  • Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The muscles of the face and of the eye. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • The muscles of the face and of the eye. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
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  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Hegu
  • Head sculpture
  • Face sculpture
  • Human head sculpted in clay, completed model
  • Human head sculpted in clay, completed model
  • Human head sculpted in clay, hands holding clay ears
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