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Moral morsels

April 22, 2019
Insight
It is a troubling business. The simple act of lifting a morsel to your mouth is now fraught with dilemma. To eat is to run an ethical gauntlet. Wherever you...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage
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Beyond the usual suspects

April 19, 2019
Insight
“Having trained as a physicist, I find the Francis Crick Institute’s strategy of ‘discovery without boundaries’ very exciting. Adventurous multidisciplinary research like this requires a cast of characters that includes...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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Welcome steps and missed opportunities

April 16, 2019
Insight
Set against the backdrop of ongoing political uncertainty, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement saw welcome steps and missed opportunities for science and engineering. The Chancellor_announced changes_to visa regulations for researchers: PhD-level...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis, Policy
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Blood vessels

April 11, 2019
Insight
This amazing image of subarachnoid blood vessels won Matt MacGregor Sharp – a PhD student at the University of Southampton – a runner-up prize in last year's Reflections of Research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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The banality of nomenclature continues

April 8, 2019
Insight
Is there anything, we must ask, more exciting than the science of the unimaginably large and the near-infinitesimally small?For probing the extremes of our universe more likely than not holds...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

April 5, 2019
Insight
Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly important part of defeating the disease, but could folded sheets of wax paper really...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Put that snack down you fools!

April 3, 2019
Insight
For all those that partake in the occasional lab-based munch, Dr Matthew Partridge has some gentle advice for you… I have a confession. Despite years of terrible paper work, awful online...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Quantum computer

April 2, 2019
Insight
A universal quantum computer will solve computational problems too vast to solve on a classical computer. But the quest to build one is inevitably a gradual one…
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Particle accelerator

March 29, 2019
Insight
A new particle accelerator could bring unforeseen scientific discoveries that support emerging technologies. Even at its proposal stage, the FCC has racked up some impressive numbers...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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‘Big’ doesn’t quite cover it

March 29, 2019
Insight
We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the way most science is done; indeed some science can only...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Making the Crick… tick

March 20, 2019
Insight
An intriguing invitation took Dr Emily Scott-Dearing behind the scenes of The Francis Crick Institute to create an exhibition celebrating the technicians, engineers and specialist staff that make the life-changing...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Drug Discovery, Engineering, Interviews, Pharmaceutical
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How science can inspire policy

March 13, 2019
Insight
The development of the Periodic Table is perhaps one of the finest feats of human ingenuity. In this, the year of the Periodic Table, I found myself reflecting on the...
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Comment And Analysis, Policy
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