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You, a thousand years ago

Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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  • Singapore: officers and men of the Royal Engineers employed in building fortifications. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1878.
  • Civil engineering: a Royal visit to the Suez canal, arrival (top), and the meeting of the waters (below). Wood engraving, c.1865.
  • Naval officers and men on a ship, dressed in the uniform of nine labelled ranks of the Royal Navy. Wood engraving.
  • Fifteen uniformed men, each of different rank in the Royal Navy, on the deck of a ship. Coloured lithograph, c. 1859.
  • Fifteen uniformed men, each of different rank in the Royal Navy, on the deck of a ship. Coloured lithograph, c. 1859.
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Wood engraving by [F.W.], [1885].
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Lithograph, [1885].
  • The examination hall of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons: Queen Victoria laying the foundation stone. Wood engraving.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
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