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Comment is free 3 days ago

End the macho culture that turns women off science

17 Jun 2012: Athene Donald: We are wasting an enormous pool of talent by not encouraging women to enter and stay in this discipline
Comment is free 3 days ago

There's no point resisting corporate websites. It's time to sell yourself

17 Jun 2012:
There's a massive market for our personal information – and we ought to capitalise on it, writes David Mitchell

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GM 2hr 6min ago

GM cotton problems

20 Jun 2012: Letters: Researchers in China have discovered increased insect resistance and increased numbers of pests developing in and around GM cotton crops
Alan Turing 5hr 17min ago

Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma

20 Jun 2012:
Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a Science Museum exhibition
Serbia 6hr 55min ago

Mammoth field found at Serbia coal mine 'great find for Ice Age knowledge'

20 Jun 2012: Archaeologists say bones of five woolly mammoths at Kostolac coal pit may reveal more about Balkans several millennia ago
Plants 8hr 39min ago

John Tomlinson obituary

20 Jun 2012: Other lives: Plant pathologist and virologist who saved the British watercress industry
Space 8hr 50min ago

Moon return ticket: £100m per person – video

20 Jun 2012: Video (1min 47sec)
The founder of the British space company Excalibur Almaz, Art Dula, announces plans to take people to the moon for the first time since 1972
Public services policy 10hr 25min ago

Test policies in 'randomised controlled trials', nudge unit urges

20 Jun 2012: Paper calls on ministers to adopt a 'test, learn, adapt' method to policy-making to gauge effectiveness and halt inadvertently harmful policies
Comment is free 10hr 31min ago

Would you eat less meat to help save the planet?

20 Jun 2012: Poll
Westerners should halve their consumption of meat to prevent global warming, scientists at the Rio+20 summit have said. Would you reduce your meat intake?
Neurophilosophy 11hr 30min ago

Should minimally conscious patients be asked if they wish to die?

20 Jun 2012:
The ability to communicate with some minimally conscious patients raises difficult ethical questions that we should begin to think about
Drugs 1 day ago

Sports doping, Victorian style

19 Jun 2012:
Vanessa Heggie: Athletes in the 19th century thought nothing of fortifying themselves with coca leaves, cocaine, alcohol or strychnine
David Nutt 1 day ago

David Nutt: alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed

19 Jun 2012: Former chairman of drugs advisory committee tells MPs Dutch-style 'coffee shops' would make people drink less
Open access scientific publishing 1 day ago

Open access is the future of academic publishing, says Finch report

19 Jun 2012:
Transition to open access could cost £60m a year but bring benefits for UK economy and increase efficiency of research
The Northerner 2 days ago

Manchester's MadLab spends time with the FBI

18 Jun 2012:
The lively team from the Northern Quarter have just been in California for a conference designed to help the Feds keep up with 'DIY biologists' across the world. Asa Calow was one of them
Improbable research 2 days ago

The research that's on everyone's lips

18 Jun 2012: What do your lips say about you? Researchers have shown that every person's lip print pattern is unique, which makes them a useful tool in forensics - and women's are identifiably different to men's, too

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'Codebreaker – Alan Turing's life and legacy' at the Science Museum

Video (5min 17sec) The new Alan Turing exhibition at London's Science Museum features the Pilot Ace – the universal, programmable computer that Turing dreamed up in 1945
Life & Physics blog

Alan Turing at the Science Museum

Jon Butterworth on a new exhibition on Alan Turing opens tomorrow at the Science Museum.
The Northener blog

Turing and the bullying of Britain's geeks

Professor S. Barry Cooper on the torment which the bright but unusual can still suffer at school

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Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma

Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a Science Museum exhibition
Mammoth field found at Serbia coal mine 'great find for Ice Age knowledge'

Archaeologists say bones of five woolly mammoths at Kostolac coal pit may reveal more about Balkans several millennia ago
Moon return ticket: £100m per person – video

Video (1min 47sec)
The founder of the British space company Excalibur Almaz, Art Dula, announces plans to take people to the moon for the first time since 1972
Test policies in 'randomised controlled trials', nudge unit urges

Paper calls on ministers to adopt a 'test, learn, adapt' method to policy-making to gauge effectiveness and halt inadvertently harmful policies
David Nutt: alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed

Former chairman of drugs advisory committee tells MPs Dutch-style 'coffee shops' would make people drink less
Open access is the future of academic publishing, says Finch report

Transition to open access could cost £60m a year but bring benefits for UK economy and increase efficiency of research
Rock of ages: Australia's oldest artwork found

Archaeologist discovers Aboriginal rock art made 28,000 years ago in Northern Territory cave
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The research that's on everyone's lips

What do your lips say about you? Researchers have shown that every person's lip print pattern is unique, which makes them a useful tool in forensics - and women's are identifiably different to men's, too
Alan Turing's legacy: how close are we to 'thinking' machines?

This year, the Loebner prize, the annual competition to find a computer that can pass for a human, was held in Turing's former stomping ground of Bletchley Park. How did they do?
How BBC comedy Episodes inadvertently went viral in Israel

The programme has become infamous after its makers mistranslated a gravestone inscription – with disastrous results
Pass notes No 3,194: bath salts

The dangerous drug with the innocent-sounding street name has been linked to a series of violent attacks in the US
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'Vampire' skeletons found in Bulgarian Black Sea town – video

The Bulgarian national history museum exhibits two 'vampire' skeletons found during excavations in the Black Sea town of Sozopol