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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration
A boy meets girl meets stats story
A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea.
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space
Do Indian women own 11% of the world鈥檚 gold?
The cultural importance of gold is well known 鈥� but how much do Indians actually own?
The overlooked mathematicians of history
A global history of mathematics, from ancient China to the Middle East
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
We ask whether the 鈥榳indscreen phenomenon鈥� suggests falling numbers of insects
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin
Are half the words in English from French?
We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.
