From mouse taxidermy to chocolate body parts, CultureLab has all the wit and whimsy you could wish for the science fans in your life
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Stuff yourself with chocolate body parts: collections include Great Expectations (womb, sperm and heart). From the US, so hurry!
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Prepare your young spacefarer for a soft landing. The NASA suit pictured on this duvet is from the Space Expo museum in the Netherlands
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Images of the sun, moon and Earth fill these large, shallow bowls. They’re meant to be tableware, but they’re so pretty, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to put them to the test
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Inspired by the Hunterian Museum’s collections of body parts, bones and organs, this T-shirt lets us consider our deepest natures
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Give an ear to women in science, and you too can sport the piercing intelligence of Dorothy Hodgkin (pictured), Barbara McClintock or Marie Curie
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Give your correspondence gravitas with these envelopes and notecards, handmade from 1960s science journals
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Powered by bioluminescent plankton, Dino Pet gives a light show at night when you shake it. All it needs is indirect sunlight. From the US, so hurry!
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One of Time magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2013. Use your phone or tablet to race and battle toy cars. Watch your back, though: these vehicles come with minds of their own
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It’s a catching idea: buy a tie sporting viruses like herpes or hepatitis C and cash goes to related research, education or support
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Answer some health questions, and this watch will compute your life expectancy to the last second – and start counting down. It acts as a timely reminder to seize the day
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Join the taxidermy bandwagon. This expert-made kit contains everything a beginner needs – except for the mouse. But don’t worry, even top stuffers care about animal welfare so there’s a list of ethical sources of rodents
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The Royal Society – on your wall. Choose from more than 2500 beautiful portraits, observations and illustrations, framed or unframed, on paper or canvas
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