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DNA double helix: discovery that led to 60 years of biological revolution
25 Apr 2013:Adam Rutherford: Six decades after DNA's shapely curves were first revealed, no aspect of biology is now above modification, remix or redesign
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8 Sep 2014: The case of Ashya King highlights a peculiarity in our culture, the family medical ‘human interest’ story. Emm Johnstone explains how such stories of private pain became public property – especially when a dangerously sick child was the focus of attention.
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3 Sep 2014: Rebekah Higgitt: 100 years ago, British scientists travelled to Australia for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The event was meant to promote science, progress and empire but was overshadowed by the announcement of war
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1 Sep 2014: If you were going back in time, what bit of scientific knowledge would help you survive? Vanessa Heggie is running an event at the British Science Festival which tries to answer this tricky question.
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24 Aug 2014: Katharine Hodgkin finds Adam Ganz’s play about her grandmother’s relationship with Margaret Thatcher an uncomfortable listen
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20 Aug 2014: Dean Burnett: Yet another look at what great moments in science would have looked like if they happened via Twitter
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4 Aug 2014: Writing in The Lancet, Richard Horton called historians of medicine “invisible, inaudible, and … inconsequential”. Historian of medicine Carsten Timmermann responds
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21 Jul 2014: Dean Burnett: What if Twitter had been around at the time of famous scientists and scientific breakthroughs?
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18 Jul 2014: Rebekah Higgitt: It’s a story that has it all: skill, heroic endeavour, capture by the French and a cat. Familiar to Australians, a new statue to Matthew Flinders at Euston aims to bring his reputation home
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