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Sharing Nature: Plastic fantastic

There are serious concerns about plastics in the environment. Yet they make our lives much easier, even in the natural world.

  • Article

Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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How I cured my fear of vomiting

Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.

  • Interview

Refugee health on a pound a day

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

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  • Boat approaching the fortress of Ibrim, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: boats produced by the Lamb Boat and Engine Company, Iowa. Photograph, 1904.
  • A Chinese merchant boat. Gouache.
  • Drawing of a steam boat
  • Pap boat, silver, marked 1785-1786
  • Pap-boat, silver, marked 1797-1798
  • Ghosts landing from the boat of Charon; Charon receiving a ghost into his boat. Engraving by C. Grignion, 1790.
  • A crested boat-bill. Etching with engraving.
  • Pap-boat, silver gilt, marked 1817-1818
  • Pap-boat-silver, plain, marked 1728-1729.
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