Stories
- Article
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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The relationship between science and art
Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Australia, 1914 - 1
Date: 1914Reference: PP/ESS/E.23Part of: Ephemera- Archives and manuscripts
British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Australia, 1914 - 2
Date: 1914Reference: PP/ESS/E.24Part of: Ephemera- Ephemera
- Online
Received... / British Association for the Advancement of Science.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.Date: 1908- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting
Date: 1952-1953Reference: PENROSE/2/28/4Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Journals
Annual report / British Association for the Advancement of Science.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.