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Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics

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Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics

The way in which a statistic is presented can entirely change how alarming it sounds. And too often, both newspapers and scientific journals choose the most alarming, but least informative, way

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rainforest cartoon

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Brazil’s next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK’s new £50 note

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Science banners outside the Houses of Parliament

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51��s should use their clout to get a less bad Brexit for all

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Banning straws isn't enough. We must get serious about climate change

Environment

Banning straws isn't enough. We must get serious about climate change

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

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Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work

Technology

Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work

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Cannabis plant

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Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo

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<i>Paywall: The business of scholarship</i> review – analysis of a scandal

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Paywall: The business of scholarship review – analysis of a scandal

Culture

Dead mosquito

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How should we control the power to genetically eliminate a species?

The power to re-engineer or eliminate wild species using a “gene drive” needs to be brought under international governance, say Simon Terry and Stephanie Howard

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

Leader

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It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

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US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars

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We challenged MI5’s mass surveillance. Then they spied on us

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