Stories
- 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.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Article
Homesick for planet Earth
Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
Catalogue
- Journals
Departmental report / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Forestry Commission ; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.- Books
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Great Britain : a progress report June 2002 / [Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs].
Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Animal health and welfare strategy for Great Britain.
Date: [2004], ©2004- Archives and manuscripts
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy progress reports from 2001
Date: June-December 2001Reference: PP/MIA/D/3/4/14Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives- Archives and manuscripts
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy progress reports from 2002
Date: June-December 2002Reference: PP/MIA/D/3/4/15Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives