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The rock and I
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The rock and I

2 March 2026

As a photographer, my relationship with territory is profoundly physical and emotional. I not only have to walk long distances under an unrelenting sun...

The grounds of architecture
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The grounds of architecture

2 March 2026

In 2020, Emily Elhacham and colleagues published an article in Nature which argued that, for the first time in history, the mass of everything made by...

Sand bell sleuth
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Sand bell sleuth

12 February 2026

In the early 1980s, in a shop window in the Northam Road antiques quarter of Southampton, I spotted a beautiful glass bell filled with coloured sands forming...

Mars’ watery underworld
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Mars’ watery underworld

1 December 2025

Mars’ surface bears unmistakable evidence of a wetter past. Images, observations from rovers and studies of meteorites all point towards Mars once having...

A Pebble in Time
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A Pebble in Time

1 December 2025

Gideon Mantell first published Thoughts on a Pebble in 1831 as a slim 18-page book based on answers he gave to his young son about a flint pebble found...

Local talent
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Local talent

9 September 2025

By the 19th century the use of gravestones for people of all classes seems to have become widespread, and the monumental masonry trade flourished. The...

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