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The museum that got away
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The museum that got away

24 March 2026

When the founders of the Geological Society of London hit on the idea of setting up a museum to serve as a research tool for experienced geologists and...

Out of the Blue
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Out of the Blue

17 March 2026

“Can we stop the car for some fresh air please?” I was beginning to suspect I might be pregnant… My husband, Des Clark, pulled in by the next...

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...

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