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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

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  • A lion attacking a stag; sheep and cow in the background. Engraving.
  • A lion attacking a wild boar. Engraving by F. Rosaspina after Titian (?), ca. 1800.
  • A giant coluber snake swallowing a panther. Etching after Howitt, 1 April 1812.
  • A monkey forcing a cat to retrieve hot chestnuts, so burning its paws on the stove; two kittens in the background. Engraving by R. Graves after E. Landseer, ca. 1850.
  • A red snake and a maroon snake entwined and glaring at each other. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A lion approaching a lioness; another lion looks on from behind a rock. Mezzotint by R. Houston after G. Stubbs, 1773.
  • A red snake and a maroon snake entwined and glaring at each other. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A lion attacking a horse. Engraving by R. Collin, 1679, after J. von Sandrart.
  • A horse attacked by a lion. Soft ground etching by G. Stubbs, 1788.
  • Two bulls fighting by a pond; frogs in the foreground. Etching by S. Howitt.
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