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The chymist’s trade card
| Julia Nurse
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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What is air, and how do we know?
| Hasok ChangTracy Satchwill
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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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
| Cassidy Phillips
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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The art of scientific glassblowing
| Helen BabbsThomas S G Farnetti
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.