Over 50 years, Khandakar has collected 12,000 objects. Some are extraordinary – antiques dating to the Mughal era. Many are simply the nuts and bolts of the everyday: pens, toys, perfume bottles ...

Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects, many steeped in tradition ... rectangular pieces of paper printed with the Latin phrase “Eligo in Summum Pontificem ...

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Have you ever wondered what is inside the objects you use or see every day? Although we are used to them, their interior ...

A train ticket repurposed as a bookmark, a shell smoothed by an unfamiliar sea, a seemingly naff keyring – these objects are infused with personal meaning. And, in an era where travel is documented ...

Barf bags. Styrofoam cups. Skateboard decks. Joseph R Tomlinson has drawn on many unconventional surfaces. Drink coasters, ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

When Merle is invited to spend the summer in the South of France with her lover, she arrives to find only his children in the summer house.

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