Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- 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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
Life sciences blueprint : a statement from the Office for Life Sciences.
Date: 2009- Books
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Building scientific capacity for development : Government and UK Collaborative on Development Sciences Response to the Committee's fourth report of session 2012-13 : fourth special report of session 2012-13 / House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology.Date: 2013- Books
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Pre-appointment hearing with the government's preferred candidate for Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) : eighth report of session 2014-15 : report, together with formal minutes relating to the report.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and TechnologyDate: 2015- Journals
Science, engineering and technology statistics / Department of Trade and Industry, Office of Science and Technology.
Date: 1996-- Books
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Mercury's caducean rod: or, the great and wonderful office of the universal Mercury, or God's vicegerent, displayed. Wherein is Shewn His Nativity, Life, Death, Renovation and Exaltation to an Immutable State; To which is added A General Epistle, discovering the Mysterious Fire of Pontanus. By Cleidophorus Mystagogus.
Cleidophorus Mystagogus.Date: 1704