Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Reprint from Science (vol.xx, no.506: Sept. 1904): "Ancient Natural History Lore", by C.R. Eastman
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044/4/28Part of: Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
Lost discoveries : the ancient roots of modern science - from the Babylonians to the Maya / Dick Teresi.
Teresi, Dick.Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption : Band XXVII / Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle (Hg.).
Date: 2017- Books
Freak Babylon : an illustrated history of teratology & freakshows / Jack Hunter.
Hunter, JackDate: 2005