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The hidden power of mathematics

December 12, 2019
As she gets set to tread the boards for the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Dr Hannah Fry talks romantic maths, AI and Rubik's cubes…

Moving from push to pull

December 9, 2019
Nothing less than an entirely new model of drug development is needed if we are to create new antibiotics says Dr Peter Jackson. And it's something NICE are finally taking...

Priorities ahead of UK general election

December 3, 2019
Perhaps never before has UK politics appeared to move so quickly yet largely stood still.

A very positive destruction

December 2, 2019
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global cooperation and technical excellence. Here we learn that keeping one of the most catastrophic diseases...

Just good sense

November 29, 2019
Síle _Lane is on a mission to challenge misrepresentation of science and evidence. She is leading the AllTrials campaign, which makes institutions accountable to the House of Commons Science and...

Why we need a science of science

November 25, 2019
At the launch of a new initiative to understand how research is funded, practiced and evaluated, Professor Richard Jones has been wondering about scientific productivity. How it is defined, and...

Money talks… and heals

November 25, 2019
Beware the dreaded hyperbole. That is always in the forefront of my mind when writing for you. But it is, I’ll admit, hard to avoid when it comes to antimicrobial...

Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em think…

November 11, 2019
The Ig Nobel awards ceremony is a highlight of the scientific calendar with its celebration of unconventional and irreverent research results. Jonathan Chadwick spoke to its founder and master of...

11,000 scientists declare climate emergency

November 6, 2019
More than 11,000 scientist signatories support new a paper warning of “untold human suffering” that will be caused by climate change without shifts in human activities.

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