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Peanut Warning

Why allergies aren’t nuts at all

8 August 2018

Faced with airline peanut bans, it’s easy to dismiss allergies as imaginary modern maladies. They’re not – and we need to understand why they’re on the up
Computer Code

Cybersecurity is failing us – and will continue to do so unless we act

8 August 2018

Our current model of internet security is too vulnerable to the mistakes of individual programmers. Better alternatives exist – and should be deployed

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