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The search for weapons of maths communication

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18 February 2012

Maths is like Marmite – love it or loathe it. Harriet Bailey questions whether those campaigning for a maths museum in the UK have got their sums right

Diabetes in the developing world going untreated, despite available drugs

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16 February 2012

Despite the image of diabetes as an affliction of fat Western people, eighty per cent of deaths from the disease are in low- and middle-income countries.

Leveson tackles science reporting in newspapers

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11 February 2012

Kate Adams was surprised to discover that there’s more to Leveson than phone hacking

When cutting kills

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7 February 2012

A routine but largely unnecessary medical procedure kills boys in South Africa every year

Why are we banging heads over public access to scientific data?

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13 December 2011

That a public debate nearly ended in a baroness nutting a journalist reveals the passions around freedom of information.

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