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The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

2 November 2017

Mary Halton reflects on how books on forecasting, rock-reading and the grisly world of Victorian medicine highlight how we have always relied on those in the know
The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

21 July 2017

What happened when all 129 men in John Franklin’s Arctic expedition vanished in the late 1840s? We’re finally putting the pieces together

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