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It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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We who can’t believe

Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.

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  • Mice used in leprosy research
  • Infestation with mice / E.L. Millar.
  • Infestation with mice / E.L. Millar.
  • Mendelism in mice and purifying the germ-plasm.
  • Results of the treatment of mice with '606' .
  • Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.
  • Two long-tailed field mice. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.
  • L'Oreal sunscreen : first fry white mice in tinfoil / Animal Aid.
  • L'Oreal sunscreen : first fry white mice in tinfoil / Animal Aid.
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