Steve Connor

Profile: Full name: Area of interest: Science Journals/Organisation: The Independent Email: s.connor@independent.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/steve-connor Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: Education: Career: Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Steve Connor is an angry man - Ben Goldacre, Bad Science blog, 1st July 2009 Awards/Honours: Top prize for Independent's Science Editor, The world's most eminent space and earth scientists have awarded Steve Connor, Science Editor of The Independent the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, The Independent, 23rd July 2011 Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Latest work: Paraphernalia: The curious lives of magical things OCLC 732797957 Reviewed by Michael Bywater, The Independent, 22nd July 2011 Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:

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Articles: This could revolutionise our view of the disease - It is now more than 30 years since scientists discovered the first 'tumor suppressor' gene - 19th April 2012 The quest for knowledge can be a dangerous thing - Knowledge may be pure, but its application can be misused for for the detriment of humanity - 20th December 2011 Why the Haiti earthquake may not have been a natural disaster - Deforestation and extreme weather may later cause earthquakes, scientists believe - 10th December 2011 Can Mox provide the answer this time around? - The debate over new nuclear reactors has overshadowed discussions about what should be done with Britain's immense stockpile of plutonium, which will exceed 100 tonnes when all of its spent nuclear fuel has been reprocessed - 10th October 2011 They're fast but still no match for the human brain - Alan Turing was a brilliant scientist so it should not be assumed he really thought computers could show the sort of intelligence displayed by the human mind - 8th September 2011 Big Tobacco's big fear is a brand-free packaging law - Tobacco advertising and promotion has been progressively curbed over the past few decades, which has led to greater emphasis on the fag packet - 2nd September 2011 Hair-splitting, brazen denials and six decades of dirty tricks - 'Anything can be considered harmful. Apple sauce is harmful if you get too much of it,' a Philip Morris memo claimed - 1st September 2011 Echoes of climate change battles are no accident - There are striking parallels between the attempt by the tobacco industry to seek academic research data held by Stirling University using the Freedom of Information law and the campaign to gain access to research data held by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - 1st September 2011 Can an ape learn to be human? - As two new films explore the human-like behaviour of chimpanzees, Steve Connor explains the fascination – and fear – we have about our closest living relatives - 5th August The reason we have to wait for useful results - One in 10 experiments involving the use of laboratory monkeys serves no benefit whatsoever, whether to scientific understanding, medicine or animal welfare - 28th July 2011 It has been impossible to say these events were part of a bigger picture – until now - Meteorologists have always emphasised the difference between climate and weather, summing up the distinction by saying that "climate is what you expect, whereas weather is what you get" - 1st July 2011 The painstaking way science really works - Science is a messy business. We like to think that it can give us clear-cut answers to difficult questions, but like any human endeavour it can frequently lead us up the wrong path - 3rd June 2011 Greenhouse gas emission targets could be undermined - One of the great unknowns of climate science is predicting the effect of "feedbacks" - 30th May 2011 Does finding an Aids vaccine matter any more? - People with HIV are no longer considered to be "dying of Aids", but "living with HIV" - 20th May 2011 The nuclear industry must learn its lesson and stop building these white elephants - When the troubled Sellafield Mox Plant was built in the 1990s it had to wait several years before it was given an operating licence. The principal justification for awarding the licence in 2001 was the belief that it would supply hundreds of tonnes of mixed oxide (Mox) fuel to Japanese reactors and so provide a cash benefit for UK plc - 9th May 2011 How do we solve the plutonium conundrum? - 6th May 2011 Procedure will offer relief for sleep-starved fiancée - Ed Miliband's future wife, was almost certainly the first person to realise that he had a problem with sleep apnoea, which literally means stopping breathing while asleep - 23rd April 2011 Contamination of water is the big headache for Tepco ... - Analysis: Pumping in fresh water has led to further build-ups of contaminated water - 19th April 2011 How a money-making strategy from the 1960s left behind a toxic legacy - Instead of producing 120 tonnes of Mox fuel each year, the plant has produced just 13.8 tonnes since 2002 - 11th April 2011 We may be on the brink of major instability - Decent science fiction has more than a grain of truth to it. So it was with The Day After Tomorrow, the movie that brought the esoteric science of ocean currents to cinema audiences - 6th April 2011

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