Stories
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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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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
- 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
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The President's address and the sectional addresses : British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester Meeting, 1887.
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1887 : Manchester, England)Date: [1887?]- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the pathology and treatment of asphyxia : being a report read at the Fourteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to which the Royal Humane Society awarded the Fothergillian gold medal / by John E. Erichsen.
Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896.Date: 1845- Books
Hunger : can it be averted? / Joint editors: E. John Russell and Norman C. Wright.
Date: 1961- Books
South Africa and science : a handbook prepared under the auspices of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science for the meeting of the British Association in Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1929 / general editor: H.J. Crocker ; scientific editor: J. McCrane.
Date: 1929- Books
Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]