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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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  • Received... / British Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting, Southampton, 1846: some of the participants. Wood engraving, 1846.
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science: the president-elect and presidents of departments. Wood engraving, 1883.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • The Ba debate : "Food additives - for the benefit of the manufacturer or the consumer?" / British Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting, Southampton, 1846: some of the participants. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1846.
  • Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at York, 1844, with vignettes of its officers. Wood engraving, 1844.
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