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On Paradigms and Hindsight

By Scarlett Parr-ReidPosted March 2022 Through rose-tinted lenses We may lean into historyLike John Grimshaw's painted ladyTransfixed by streams of oil...

An advertisement warning about the dangers of multiple partners and the importance of protection against AIDS by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS.

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The unknown story: The public health campaigns India used to target one of history’s extraordinary pandemics

Vaishnavi Mohan1st December 2021 - World AIDS Day Through our own experience of living through pandemic for the past two...

Sir J.Y. Simpson and two friends, having tested chloroform on themselves, lying insensible on the floor around a table. Pen and ink drawing.

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On This Day in Science – Chloroform Parties!

Amy Ringrose4th November 2021 November 4th, 1847The evening has drawn in quickly, the bitterness of winter biting at your ankles...

On Paradigms and Hindsight

The unknown story: The public health campaigns India used to target one of history’s extraordinary pandemics

On This Day in Science – Chloroform Parties!

Issue 53: Creativity

Issue 52: Joy

Issue 51: The Rest of the World

Issue 50: Spectrum

Issue 49: Mystery

Promising bee vaccine welcomed by hobbyists as part of kinder attitude to nature

Global life expectancy set to soar by 2050 despite rising health challenges, study finds

Most countries failed to achieve their CO2 emissions targets for 2020, study finds

Orangutan is seen healing himself with a plant poultice for the first time

Scientists create novel imaging technique to study placental development in pregnant mice

Mili Ostojic: the PhD student monitoring biodiversity with drones

From rubbers to rub-ons: will women trust men with a new contraceptive gel?

Plastispheres: the plastic-based micro-ecosystems that menace Antarctica

Promising bee vaccine welcomed by hobbyists as part of kinder attitude to nature

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