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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville

Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.

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Sharing Nature: Plastic fantastic

There are serious concerns about plastics in the environment. Yet they make our lives much easier, even in the natural world.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: boats produced by the Lamb Boat and Engine Company, Iowa. Photograph, 1904.
  • Ship-building: staves, oars, and a rowing-boat. Engraving.
  • Fishing: two men fishing from a boat in a river (top), and plans and elevations of the boat and net (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Kyrenia, Cyprus: buildings and boats in the harbour. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A boat is being tossed around off shore as men and horses with a life-boat prepare to launch a rescue attempt. Wood engraving after E. Duncan.
  • Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured aquatint by E. Duncan after W.J. Huggins.
  • An elegant, Gunji-like figure, punting a boat through water-lilies: a woman and child in the boat look at the blossoms. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from a boat in the river, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Lithograph by W. Westall after himself.
  • David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
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