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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

Virtual reality and a ‘snail fossil’ meet in clash of old and new at Royal Society

An audio experience at the Royal Society exhibition
An audio experience will show how virtual audio could help people with hearing impairments. Photograph: Thomas Angus/Royal Society

From curious models of fossils to an artificial throat able to recreate the sounds of vowels, an exhibition at the Royal Society 100 years ago had no shortage of unusual displays.

Now visitors to this year’s Summer Science Exhibition can revisit this cutting-edge science of 1923 and compare it with that of today’s pioneering research.

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