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Complex connections from simple rules

January 28, 2014
Using stem cells to repair spinal injuries may be a step closer thanks to research which has revealed spinal nerve cell networks may develop using much simpler rules than expected.In...

Pay-as-you go labs

January 27, 2014
Pay-as-you-go lab space is now available at The University of Southampton Science Park.The Science Centre will offer flexible pay-as-you-go lab space to early stage technology companies with a need to...

A lupine conundrum

January 24, 2014
Hello dearest inside back cover readers – and a happy new year to you. By way of a post-festive period pick-you-up, we thought you could do with a little teaser...

Picking apart your pipetting

January 21, 2014
It’s amazing how the commonly seen can so easily become the unseen, but when it comes to pipetting – you must beat this habit writes Craig BushWalk down the street...

The Science of Prediction

January 20, 2014
Bemused by a Swiss attempt to analyse a joke, Russ Swan finds real humour in a dubious attempt at the science of prediction One of the great joys of reporting on...

Fall – and return – from grace

January 17, 2014
A long time ago, in a laboratory not far from here, a scientist sat in his lab pondering his latest results. This scientist inhabited the mysterious realm of “celebrity” –...

The smallest of revolutions

January 16, 2014
Designed to operate at the cellular or subcellular level and often exhibiting unique physical properties due to their increasingly small size – engineered nanometric tools offer huge potential developments in...

Who are the scientists? 100 leading UK practising scientists listed

January 14, 2014
A list of the 100 leading UK practicing scientists has been compiled by the Science Council to highlight the fact that not all scientists are the same.The list aims to...

Beating the swarm

January 14, 2014
Tony Sackville discusses how innovative diagnostic approaches to HIV and Norovirus characterisation can defeat the drug resistance which occurs as a result of “quasispecies swarm”  The RNA viruses such as...

Science and outreach with Anne Pawsey

January 13, 2014
Anne Pawsey has recently scooped the Very Early Career Physicist Award, given for excellence in scientific work as well as outreach. We catch up with her and talk outreach, awards...

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