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Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

The pictures on this page aren’t as simple as they seem. Yes, different colours mark the nerve systems in the bodies of mice. But to achieve this, the team of scientists first had to build a custom mi

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

Alíz Kovács-Zöldi considers…

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague