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...education, women are opting to work in sciences such as biology and medical sciences, rather than mathematics and physics. Historically, women have not enjoyed educational equality. Indeed, Oxford only began awarding degrees to women in the 1920s. Even today the number of women receiving degrees in mathematics is half that of men. In turn, this lack of access has seeded a...

...Technology Professor Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to me to become not just a scientist but a communicator of that science. His work as a cosmologist, and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary. His best-known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead...

...technologies was developed and became operational within 18 months. Box 1 Choatic scheme that left families relying on food parcels Demands mount for overhaul of aid that led to ‘debt and despair’ Gordon Brown, the chancellor, faced fresh calls last night for a radical overhaul of the tax credit system after the Treasury published figures showing that administration...