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Articles: 2013

 * No one envies the Domestic Goddess now - If the Grillo sisters turn out to be telling the truth, members of Team Nigella might have to accept that Charles Saatchi is the victim of an injustice - 27th November 2013
 * Should we encourage new mums to milk the state? - Any uptake in breastfeeding will benefit not only the infants concerned, but also the public purse - 13th November 2013
 * We should not get too excited about ET - They might not relish the prospect of meeting us in any case - 11th November 2013
 * Hair loss should not be a health priority - The $2bn spent annually on baldness outstrips spending on malaria control - 25th October 2013
 * The 'yeti’ comes in from the cold - DNA analysis lends substance to the legend of the Himalayas – but cryptozoology, the study of fabulous creatures, is finding that truth is as strange as fiction - 18th October 2013
 * Why the Nobel is still the greatest prize - New mega-money accolades do not have the history or mythology - 11th October 2013
 * A lesson in ethics from the citizen scientists - In the risky new field of synthetic biology, it’s the amateurs who are behaving responsibly - 12th July 2013
 * Putting a copyright on cancer - Should companies be able to patent the genes that cause breast cancer? - 2nd July 2013
 * Surely it’s only transhuman nature - Freezing body parts for life after death is monstrously egotistical - 11th June 2013
 * A giant leap for womankind - By writing about her double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie has normalised the idea of lifesaving surgery and flagged up the need to make genetic testing affordable - 15th May 2013
 * The chances are high that this bird flu won’t fly - The H7N9 bird flu virus has hurdled the species barrier and infected and killed humans in China. But we shouldn't panic - 3rd May 2013
 * Three parents? Five parents? All that really matters is healthy babies - For families touched by the miseries of mitochondrial disease, help may be at hand - 22nd March 2013
 * School governors unpaid? Quite right - let's keep it that way - The Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw is wrong. This job is for volunteers only - says one volunteer school governor - 28th February 2013
 * The dangers of a desire for bodily perfection - The death of Claire Squires during the London Marathon suggests that using food or drink supplements to improve performance can be as risky as taking steroids - 1st February 2013
 * Got the flu? Google will find out long before your GP - Twitter, Facebook and other social media have the potential to weed out bad hospitals and predict public health crises - 25th January 2013
 * A spark of insight into the mystery of autism - New research offers hope for sufferers of the confounding neurological disorder autism - 17th January 2013



Articles: 2012

 * The norovirus is the season’s least welcome guest - The onset of cold weather which drives people indoors creates the perfect breeding ground for norovirus to thrive - 14th December 2012
 * Jailing the seismic seven will cause tremors beyond Italy - Criminalising people for making a difficult call would render life unworkable - 25th October 2012



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