Stories
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
Cloves to mull, mask and numb
Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Circular Regarding Moth Breeding Experiments
Date: Jan 1887Reference: GALTON/2/5/1/8Part of: Galton Papers- Digital Images
- Online
Moth Fly
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Digital Images
- Online
Moth wing scales
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Digital Images
- Online
Moth wing scales
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Digital Images
- Online
Moth wing scales
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen