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The Golden Rule of Experimental Science

June 15, 2014
Michael de Podesta gives us his golden rule of experimental science; do it quick and then do it right As an experimental scientist at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), I...

Number Cruncher 15

June 14, 2014
The stats of tech transfer and spin out companies

The ‘middle men’ of knowledge

June 12, 2014
Researchers developing lighter materials and new catalysts are collaborating with UK companies to revolutionise our homes, cars and planes - but, says John Conti-Ramsden, we can’t rest on our laurels;...

Serendipitous discoveries – a scientific legend

June 11, 2014
In need of a major scientific breakthrough? Then Russ Swan has an important tip…embrace your inner klutz and go for it! Science has a long and noble history of progress...

Unleashing the hidden efficiency of your lab

June 10, 2014
Money for science is in short supply. Yet an untapped resource exists. These are the performance and financial benefits which are available from improvements in the efficiency of laboratories. The...

Scotland builds a biotech future

June 5, 2014
It’s no secret, globally our environment is changing. We’re seeing a rise in population, a rapid depletion of resources, increasing environmental pressures and climate change.  That’s why there’s never been...

Putting it all on the table

June 3, 2014
The competition to synthesise heavy elements is well underway, but are we creating them just because we can; what can we learn from these superheavy additions to the Periodic Table?...

Journey to The Island of Stability

June 2, 2014
The idea of an undiscovered island seems almost impossibly romantic. In an age where satellites probe the Earth with the precision previous generations of cartographers would barely have dreamed of,...

Love is in the air

May 27, 2014
Spring, as they say, has most definitely sprung. As the daffodils sway gently in the breeze and lambs skip youthfully in the lush fields, nature turns her mind to all...

Stand up and be counted

May 22, 2014
The CFC assay and colony counting is universally recognised as the gold standard for measuring the effects of radiation, chemotherapeutic drugs and other agents on cell viability. However, manually counting...

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