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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.

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The Victorian perspective on spectacles

When spectacles began to proliferate in the 19th century, some commentators were alarmed. Gemma Almond reveals how the Victorians came to embrace eyewear.

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The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

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Fake news and the flu

Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.

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  • Cell proliferation in chick neural tube
  • Embryonic kidney with proliferating cells
  • Proliferous cystic tumour of the mammary gland
  • Zebrafish hindbrain showing the ventricular zone, where cells are proliferating, in red, and the zone of differentiating neurons in green.
  • Human chromosomes at three stages of mitosis
  • Mitotic cell showing chromosomes - TEM
  • Human melanoma cell dividing
  • Breast cancer cells
  • Breast cancer cells
  • Human colon cancer cells in culture. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in Britain. People are more likely to develop this cancer if they eat a diet high in animal fats.
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