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Rachel Carson and the legacy of Silent Spring
27 May 2012:Fifty years after the publication of the book that laid the foundations for the environmental movement, what have we learned from the biologist who saw the need for science to work with nature? Robin McKie reports
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20 Jun 2012:
Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a Science Museum exhibition
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29 May 2012: Stuart Clark: In scale and ambition, plans to record the transit of Venus were the 18th century equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider
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27 May 2012:
Fifty years after the publication of the book that laid the foundations for the environmental movement, what have we learned from the biologist who saw the need for science to work with nature? Robin McKie reports
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23 May 2012: Letters: The farce that is the torch relay could have been written by Sacha Baron Cohen or the Monty Python Team
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14 May 2012:
John Vidal: The history books are full of William Herschel's achievements, but say little about his sister. Stella tells a different story
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27 Apr 2012:
Tim Radford: It is the fate of good scientists to be overtaken or overturned, but if they write like Haldane they are unlikely to be overlooked
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19 Apr 2012:
The Royal Society has launched an online archive of fascinating images, including flying fish and the death mask of Isaac Newton
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19 Apr 2012:
Poor sales of lavishly illustrated book forced Royal Society to go back on promise to finance publication of Newton's Principia
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8 Apr 2012:
After 250 years the exploits of French plant hunter Jeanne Baret are being recognised by naming a nightshade in her honour
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26 Mar 2012:
Manchester Science Festival sows the seeds of a very bright idea to honour the computer genius in his centenary year
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25 Mar 2012: This study of cold war academic John von Neumann and his early computer is engrossing and well researched, writes Evgeny Morozov
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21 Mar 2012:
Where do good ideas come from? How are scientific discoveries made?
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19 Mar 2012:
Hebrew University releases initial 2,000 documents including unseen letters, postcards and research notes
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18 Mar 2012:
It has enabled hundreds of thousands of amateur astronomers to map the obscure corners of the universe since 2007. Tim Adams meets some of them
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7 Mar 2012:
It takes persistence, but this is a visionary account of the philosphy of computer programming. By Francis Spufford
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