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Illness and the influence of the stars

Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.

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Domestic titans

Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.

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Why make-believe matters

Michael Rosen explores the point of play, and reveals why we should all do a little more daydreaming.

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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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  • Killer virus from outer space : be afraid, very afraid.. of the virus, not the man / Pride and prejudice was created by HIV positive gay and bisexual men from Juice and "Positive Voice", with assistance from Gay Men's Health, Waverley Care Trust and funded by Health Gay Scotland ; photographic work led by Rebecca Marr, design & internet consultant Design Resource Ltd.
  • Killer virus from outer space : be afraid, very afraid.. of the virus, not the man / Pride and prejudice was created by HIV positive gay and bisexual men from Juice and "Positive Voice", with assistance from Gay Men's Health, Waverley Care Trust and funded by Health Gay Scotland ; photographic work led by Rebecca Marr, design & internet consultant Design Resource Ltd.
  • Imagine no fresh air. No space. No escape : That's "life" for a battery chicken : chicken out! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Imagine no fresh air. No space. No escape : That's "life" for a battery chicken : chicken out! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.
  • Mitochondria In Action
  • Mitochondria in Action
  • Developing eye in a chick embryo
  • Choroidal vessels in the human eye with red blood cells
  • Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
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