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The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats

Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.

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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations

Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.

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  • Top left, a rat; top right, a mouse; centre left, a water rat; centre right, a pouched rat; bottom left, the African mole rat; bottom right, the cape mole rat. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1818.
  • Rat coronary artery
  • Domestic pet. Rat
  • Rat carotid artery
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Ganesha with rat. Lithograph.
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