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The director of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, calls for a revolution in personalized medicine. Such advances should be shared beyond the developed world, says Abdallah S. Daar.
Floods and fires aside, the tricky science of prediction is explained in a book that treads a careful line between analysis and anecdotes of awful events, says Andrew Robinson.
The latest thesis on the disappearance of physicist Ettore Majorana adds little, but reminds us of the Nobel-prizewinning quality of the discoveries he made during his brief career, explains Frank Close.