Stories
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
![Optics: interference phenomena, exhibited by diffraction gratings. Coloured mezzotint by M. Rapine [1883], after B. Desgoffe.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0025368/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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On a new case of the interference of light / by the Rev. Baden Powell.
Powell, Baden, 1796-1860.Date: 1848- Books
On a new case of interference of the rays of light / [Humphrey Lloyd].
Lloyd, Humphrey, 1800-1881Date: 1834- Pictures
Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.
Reference: 47501i
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Optics: interference phenomena, exhibited by diffraction gratings. Coloured mezzotint by M. Rapine [1883], after B. Desgoffe.
Desgoffe, Blaise-Alexandre, 1830-1901.Date: 1883Reference: 47053i
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Zebrafish eye development
Dr Steve Wilson