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We are the survivors of slow-motion epidemics

Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.

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Designing death in the virtual city

Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.

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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

  • 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.

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  • Radon / NRPB National Radiological Protection Board.
  • Bovril rises daily in public estimation / [Bovril Limited].
  • Bovril rises daily in public estimation / [Bovril Limited].
  • Theory of diseases treated with decoction of Radix Puerariae
  • For longer action and easier control, Beta-Cardone : protection for the heart day and night / Duncan, Flockhart & Co. Ltd.
  • For longer action and easier control, Beta-Cardone : protection for the heart day and night / Duncan, Flockhart & Co. Ltd.
  • For longer action and easier control, Beta-Cardone : protection for the heart day and night / Duncan, Flockhart & Co. Ltd.
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