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Miodownik succeeds in exploring how gases became our physiological, technical and emotional life-support system, fueling ...

The English philosopher Francis Bacon, who’s credited with developing the scientific method, wrote in 1620 that the three ...

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Nineteen years earlier, The Engineer reported on how a certain James Chalmers of Montreal had ‘patented the means whereby he ...

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