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The Stories We Tell About Inventors – and Their White Male Protagonists

Anjali Vats 13/12/2020

The story of invention in America typically features larger-than-life...

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The Names We Use to Describe Our Diseases – A Story From Colonial India

Sergio Infante 02/08/2020

In the autumn of 1817, a mysterious intestinal disease...

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How Science Played a Part in Bringing About Our Fear of the ‘Outsider’

Charudatta Navare 08/04/2019

The self/other theory of immunology rests on the xenophobic...

The new PARLA laser in operation at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The yellow-orange beam of the brilliant seven-watt laser is seen emerging from the dome of Unit Telescope 4 of the Very Large Telescope. In the background the Large Magellanic Cloud can also be seen. The laser creates an artificial star high in the atmosphere that can be used to correct images for the turbulence of the air and form much sharper pictures. Credit: European Southern Observatory, CC BY 4.0

How Could We Build an Invisibility Cloak to Hide Earth from an Alien Civilisation?

David Kipping 14/04/2016

An invisibility cloak could be a sort of insurance...