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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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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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Making sense of senses lost

In rapid succession, Steve Barker suddenly lost sight and hearing on his left side. The effect on how he perceives the world has been profound.

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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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  • Unsound speculative schemes (tunneling, gas lighting and stock breeding), with W.H. Brown in attendance next to a statue of Hope. Aquatint by S. De Wilde, 1809.
  • The R.G.L. cooker / Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • The R.G.L. cooker / Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • The New World gas cooker / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • The New World gas cooker / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • The "Mainservor" cooker for immediate delivery / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • The "Mainservor" cooker for immediate delivery / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
  • Potato recipes that will "hit the spot" / Martha Holmes.
  • A Pullman railway car: interior. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A large and busy composing-room at a Parisian [?] printers' establishment. Wood engraving by Trichon Monvoisin [F. A. Trichon] after P. Blanchard.
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