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  Phillip Tobias obituary

  14 Jun 2012:

  Renowned palaeoanthropologist at the heart of the Sterkfontein excavations in South Africa

• Elinor Ostrom obituary

  13 Jun 2012: Her work on resource management made her the first and only woman to win the Nobel prize for economics

• Sir James Hamilton obituary

  3 Jun 2012: Aeronautical engineer responsible for the design of Concorde's twisting delta wing

• Sir Andrew Huxley obituary

  31 May 2012:

  He shared the Nobel prize for unravelling the mechanism of the nerve impulse

• Donald Nicholson obituary

  29 May 2012: Biochemist who mapped the intricate relationships of the metabolic pathways in the human body

• Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google's Eric Schmidt

  23 May 2012: Schmidt warns about rise of censorship and government cybercrime in speech at London's Science Museum

• Science Weekly podcast: X Factor for scientists – FameLab

  Audio (41min 59sec), 21 May 2012:

  FameLab is an international competition to find the next generation of Attenboroughs, Coxes and Winstons. A 2012 winner, a finalist and TV science presenter Alice Roberts discuss the importance of great science communication

• Sometimes scientists have a duty to swap the pipette for the placard

  18 May 2012:

  Adam Smith: With some notable exceptions, the majority of scientists seem unwilling or unable to engage in the political process. Why?

• A play about astronomer Caroline Herschel sets the record straight

  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

• Why has the UK got so few women scientists?

  9 May 2012:

  The number of female scientists in the UK is very low compared with the United States and other countries

• Possible Worlds and Other Essays by JBS Haldane – review

  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

• Oliver Wrong obituary

  26 Apr 2012: 'A lion of nephrology' noted for unravelling the chemistry of the rare Dent's disease

• Podcast: Science and comedy collide at the Festival of the Spoken Nerd

  Audio (40min 03sec), 23 Apr 2012:

  Science-themed comedy is all the rage. We meet the trio behind Festival of the Spoken Nerd, a touring variety show with an educational mission

• Doctor who admitted research fraud in the US deserves our sympathy

  19 Apr 2012:

  Brian Deer: Peter Francis was a victim of a funding system that demands the answer before it will pay you to ask the question

• How a book about fish nearly sank Isaac Newton's Principia

  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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