Stories
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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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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What is air, and how do we know?
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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The Martians are coming
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
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Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier.
Rose, Achilles, 1839-1916.Date: 1905- Books
Oxygen and carbon dioxide therapy / by Argyll Campbell and E.P. Poulton ; foreword by Sir Leonard Hill.
Campbell, Argyll.Date: 1934- Books
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Memoria sobre el tratamiento curativo del cólera epidémico / escrita por Juan Parkin.
Parkin, John, 1801-1886.Date: 1834- Books
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On the antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera / by John Parkin.
Parkin, John, 1801-1886.Date: 1846- Books
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Mémoire sur le traitement curatif du choléra épidémique / écrit en espagnol et publié à Barcelone en 1834, par Jean Parkin ; traduit en français par Ml. Fx. Dunal.
Parkin, John, 1801-1886.Date: 1835