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 ...

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Licence: Public Domain Mark Credit: Turnbuch für Schulen als Anleitung für den Turnunterricht durch die Lehrer der Schulen / Von Adolf Spiess. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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 ...

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 ...

For eugenicists, the way forward for the betterment of society was to push for race improvement. This involved the introduction of birth control to inhibit the poor from breeding, and ableist measures ...

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 ...

Anyone who has ever watched a medical drama involving surgeons will know that operating theatres are clean, pristine, limited-access places. While we might enjoy the drama of someone being cut open on ...