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Born to play

Our understanding of the importance of play in a child’s development has become increasingly sophisticated over the centuries. Explore the ways different eras have regarded childhood games.

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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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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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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Dreadful explosion in a pit, 1828
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
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Our Microbes and Our Health

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Part of The Evidence

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