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Philip Ball

Stories from Philip Ball

Constructing Life

A historian of science goes searching for meaning in synthetic life.

Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life

Science writer Philip Ball digs into myth, history, and science to untangle the roots of our fears of artificial life.