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The sweet sound of synthetic speech

After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.

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  • McGill University: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. Plan of the Library Reading Room, Wellcome Camera and The Osler Library.
  • With compliments / The Library, the Royal Veterinary College, University of London ; Librarian: Linda D. Warden.
  • The cochlea is a vital part of our ear, allowing us to detect a wide range of frequencies of sound. This is a picture showing the characteristic snail shell structure of the cochlea in the inner ear, captured on a high-resolution electron microscope. The bone usually covering the cochlea has been removed to open up a window into the hidden world of hearing.
  • DNA origami
  • Vasculature of rat brain
  • Thermal image of hot liquid being poured into a cold flask
  • With the Librarian's compliments / Royal Veterinary College (University of London).
  • A microCT 3D reconstruction of a 10-day-old chick embryo, as seen from the right hand side. The inner ear is depicted, with the semicircular canals (the body's balance organ) and the cochlea (which converts sound waves into electrical impulses) shown in green. The otic capsule, a cartilaginous structure surrounding the inner ear which develops into part of the sphenoid bone, is shown in blue.
  • Anatomical Fugitive Sheets: detail of Autumn, c. 1620
  • Anatomical Fugitive Sheets: Spring; circa 1620
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