Stories

• Speech jammer: can you ignore your own voice?

  Watch our re-creation of a classic experiment.

  18 November 2014

  • Mind, Being human
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  In other words: inside the lives and minds of real-time translators

  The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability.

  18 November 2014

  • Mind, Being human

• Will the Saatchi bill speed-up access to life-saving new drugs?

  Drug approvals are evolving - but some say not fast enough.

  11 November 2014

  • Health, Disease

• The families paving the path to new drugs

  More than merely placid test subjects, patients and families are paving – and paying – the way for new drugs.

  11 November 2014

  • Health, Disease

• A quick guide to clinical trials for rare diseases

  Treatments for rare diseases challenge a system more used to blockbuster drugs.

  11 November 2014

  • Health, Disease
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  Why a ‘miracle’ drug exists but you can’t have it yet

  It’s supposedly getting easier for innovative drugs for rare diseases to reach the market. So why, asks Andy Extance, is hesitancy still proving devastating to desperate families?

  11 November 2014

  • Health, Disease
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  Inside the green schools revolution

  How can we design better, ‘living’ classrooms that will not only improve the lives of teachers and students, but also have less of an impact on the environment?

  04 November 2014

  • Planet, Environmental health

• The fray over formaldehyde

  The controversy over using formaldehyde in buildings.

  04 November 2014

  • Planet, Environmental health

• The bugs in our buildings

  Researching the microbial communities of indoor spaces.

  04 November 2014

  • Planet, Environmental health
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  School design through the decades

  A visual history of school design.

  04 November 2014

  • Planet, Environmental health
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  A plutocratic proposal

  If mega-rich people could buy places on clinical trials, would this help drive forward the development of new treatments that could benefit everyone? Alexander Masters thinks it might just work.

  27 October 2014

  • Society, Ethics
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  The man with the golden blood

  Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood. By Penny Bailey.

  21 October 2014

  • Health, Body

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