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Mass sackings threat to councils
News
Review: Bring back bedside manners
News
From cancer to cholesterol: Thirty or so years after exposing the link between smoking and lung cancer, Richard Doll is trying to get to the bottom of another health controversy – the link between diet and heart disease
Features
Review: Time travel on the box
Books & Arts
The women who went back to technology: Ten years ago a pioneering project was set up to help women return to technological careers. What happened to the hundreds who enrolled?
Features
Review: To be shown
Books & Arts
Review: Looking anew at science
Books & Arts
Lies, damned lies and British education: A passionate believer that statistics matter to society, Claus Moser has used his influence and expertise to urge educational reform
Features
Review: Look back in wonder
Books & Arts
A man for all habitats: David Attenborough, this year’s president of the British Association, is one of the most important and gifted science popularisers of our day
Features
The life and times of a computing pioneer: Charles Babbage invented all sorts of things besides automatic calculating machines, including ‘cow catchers’, flashing lighthouses and speedometers. Did he spread his talents too thinly?
Features