Stories
- Article
Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
- Article
The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Quantum Mechanics, Heredity and the Origin of Life - Pattee, H.H.
Date: 1967Reference: SB/2/3/166Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis - "Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life" (10 April 1987)
Date: 1987Reference: JDW/2/8/1/172Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
James W. Colbert Lecture, Medical University of South Carolina - "RNA and the Origin of Life" (16 April 1987)
Date: 1986-1987Reference: JDW/2/8/1/173Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'The origin of life'
Date: c.1930sReference: SA/EUG/G.32/4Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'T. Gánti'
Date: 1988-1989Reference: PP/CRI/L/5/3/3/4Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives
