Letters sent from Charles Darwin to his cousin Francis Galton. Dates from the time of the publication of Galton's Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa in 1853 up until Darwin's death in ...

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Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

What you’ll do. Join Claudia Hammond and a panel of guests from different areas of expertise to discuss the latest evidence on the relationship between water, climate change and health, inspired by ...

I f you were visiting Paris today, you’d probably find yourself walking past the love padlocks on the Pont des Arts, walking through Notre Dame and a mile on from there you’d be at the Louvre.. If you ...

When a woman discloses that she’s autistic, the reaction is often, “But you don’t look autistic,” or even a straight denial, “No you’re not.” This insightful and moving series of portraits and ...

Tobacco is a nightshade plant first introduced to Europe in the 16th century. The leaf had been widely used for centuries by the peoples of North and South America, where smoking formed an important ...

At the heart of this approach was the belief that foul air caused tuberculosis. Despite Robert Koch’s discovery of the TB germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the foul-air theory continued to ...

The translation of the caption on this poster from the Swiss AIDS Foundation is “Excluded because of AIDS? Excluded!”. By the 1990s it was becoming clear that everyone was vulnerable to the HIV virus, ...

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry.The four films in the ...

Copy book kept by Sophia Jex-Blake with copies of her letters, reviews and other writings for the years c.1883-1888. It has been written in starting at both ends. It includes drafts of her work on on ...

I n September 1950, during the first year of the Korean War, Edward Hunter, an American journalist who had worked in wartime intelligence, and post-war with the CIA, coined (or, more accurately, first ...