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Who’d win a fight between Godzilla and a T. rex?

March 21, 2017
Following on from How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? Popular science writer Brian Clegg is back with another quiz book. Loaded with new questions, What Colour is The Sun?...

A right royal success

March 6, 2017
Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set about developing an oncological knock-out punch. Here she talks microbeads, cancer starvation, and the...

Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

February 21, 2017
Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about the science – and the art – of cancer drug discoveryWhy did you decide...

Time to dissolve bias in STEM

February 10, 2017
On the eve of the UN’s International day for women and girls in science we spoke to Dr Sarah Hosgood about the importance of a sustained effort to encourage women...

Nerve endings in cornea

January 4, 2017
An image of nerve endings in the cornea, modified by Atat1 (yellow), a molecule which affects the flexibility of cells throughout the body.

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

November 23, 2016
As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope says Dr Anita Bandrowski. But in order to solve the problem...

Our greatest achievement or our biggest mistake?

October 25, 2016
Artificial intelligence carries as many risks as benefits, especially when it comes to military uses, says Dr Michael Reinsborough as he implores us to demand openess to avoid the mistakes...

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it…

October 13, 2016
After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE on the strange world of quantum biology

Climbing Everest

October 8, 2016
Greg Foot, Science Presenter on the BBC and YouTube will be speaking at Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s leading event dedicated to laboratory professionals, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on...

Coming together for microbiology

September 13, 2016
From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological fields promise much. But before they can deliver, specialists need to come together.

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