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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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The ugly truth about fast fashion

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

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Coleridge’s hypochondria

An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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  • Apparatus for transference of gases and pressure gauge.
  • Chart of war gases / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.
  • Chart of war gases / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.
  • Diagram of Simple and Compound Atmosphere taken fron "An Experimental Essay on the Consitution of mixed Gases; on the force of steam or Vapour from Water and other Liquids in different temperatures, both in Torricellion Vacuum and in Air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gases by Heat." by Mr John Dalton
  • Optics: spectra of various gases. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.
  • Chemistry: two versions of Woulfe's apparatus for washing gases. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • A portable device used to counteract poisonous gases, being carried on a man's back. Halftone.
  • Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.
  • Six kinds of electric light produced in tubes containing different gases. Colour aquatint (?) by M. Rapine, 1868.
  • The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: exterior courtyard where treatment of noxious gases took place. Photograph, ca. 1900.
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