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Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science

Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...

Is the world flat?

A recent best-seller claims that rapid communication across the world...

Is wealth good for your health?

Dramatic increases in life span over the past 300 years...

Early Science: Welcome and Introduction

A Symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of The Royal...

Big Data in the UK Biobank: Opportunities and Challenges

The UK Biobank allows scientists to access a vault of...

Visual Perception

The eye, although a critical component of sight, is not...

'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...