The way we collect covid-19 data perpetuates racism in healthcare
9 September 2020
Covid-19 is affecting ethnic minorities more severely, but we will never understand why if we don't collect the right data, says Alisha Dua
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Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research
4 December 2019
A productivity-driven funding culture has allowed sloppy science to flourish – but now some researchers are fighting back, says Clare Wilson
Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real
9 October 2019
Robert Boyle's 17th-century wish list of innovations shows the world-changing power of basic research – and why we must invest more in it, says historian David Cannadine
Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science
13 August 2019
Fanatics who want no-deal Brexit and remainers who refuse to compromise are risking science and the UK’s future in the process, says Nobel prizewinning physicist Andre Geim
Known unknowns: How to communicate certainly in an uncertain world
3 July 2019
From the speed of global warming to the likelihood of developing cancer, we must grasp uncertainty to understand the world. Here’s how to know your unknowns
End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health
12 June 2019
We know that men and women respond differently to drugs, yet data bias is still affecting women's health, says Invisible Women book author Caroline Criado-Perez
Fallout from Facebook data scandal may hit health research
22 March 2018
Use of social media data is important to research in many fields but the fallout over the Cambridge Analytica claims may hamper that, says Annabel Latham
Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that
9 October 2017
Research findings often crumble under the microscope. Rows over the best way to fix this must end so we can stop trust in science crumbling too, says Robert Matthews
