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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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A journey through slime

Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: storeroom for liquids. Photograph, 1921.
  • Chemistry: several disembodied hands experimenting with liquids, and a man looking on. Engraving, 17--.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Physics: effects of weight, sound, heat, light, electricity and magnetism on solids, liquids and gases. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • A woman pours two liquids into a bowl, next to which dividers and a spoon are lying; representing temperance. Engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • DPR-T : density transmitter for OEM-applications : a measuring system to determine the density of liquids at continuous flow / Anton Paar K.G.
  • DPR-T : density transmitter for OEM-applications : a measuring system to determine the density of liquids at continuous flow / Anton Paar K.G.
  • The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.
  • Palmyra, Syria: Louis-François Cassas, received by an Arab chief in the temple of Bel, offers him bottles of liquids and pistols. Engraving by S.C. Miger after L.F. Cassas.
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