Andrew McMahon takes a look at how we can use maths to help fight disease
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Why are pandemics so dangerous?
A consideration of Professor Openshaw’s Imperial Festival 2014 talk on swine flu …
Big data and more
Themes from the last fortnight have been big data, divestment from fossil fuels and high air pollution …
Winter issue: Editor preview
The Winter 2012/2013 issue of ‘I, Science’ Magazine is about to be released. The theme is morality in science and the magazine includes articles such as NASA’s new ambitions, …
Dual-use dilemma: Bird Flu
A year after the publication of breakthrough bird flu research was delayed due to bioterrorism concerns, Jenny Mitchell explores the dual-use dilemma of continued research …
News round-up: Space-Age China, In-Utero Surgery, Signing Physics, Sexist Science & H5N1 Published
Chinese astronauts reach orbiting space lab Image: Xinhua/Wang Yongzhuo via Xinhuanet China’s Shenzhou 9 rocket – which last week became the first Chinese mission to carry a female astronaut – has successfully docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 station 340 km (210 miles) above the Earth. The arrival of the three crewmembers marks the first time […]
New flu treatment increases immune response
April is not really the correct time of year for the sun to have his hat on with such conviction. Regardless of the month, when the sun does come out to play London seems to transform. People make eye contact with you, smile, laugh openly in the streets, hug strangers and take everything at a […]