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Seasonal kissing and unfortunate penguins

January 7, 2019
Insight
So that’s it then. That was the season to be jolly, and now the thick grey coat of January threatens to envelop our mood.  But, if you’ll excuse our stubbornness,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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New Year tips for last minute presentations

January 7, 2019
Insight
Forget that resolution to start completing tasks well in advance – just get really good at doing them last minute says Dr Matthew Partridge as he gives us his New...
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Comment And Analysis
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Perfecting the inside job

January 6, 2019
Insight
An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of traditional cancer treatment using microspheres and internal radiation   Cancer. It’s the one of the few words which...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Taking the wider view

January 3, 2019
Insight
The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citations have gone some way to do this, but they don’t take into...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Reaching the Government’s R&D target

December 18, 2018
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In the 2017 General Election campaign, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all made manifesto pledges to increase R&D intensity in the UK. The Tories set a target to...
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Comment And Analysis
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A strange sequence of events

December 12, 2018
Insight
An enigmatic interstellar visitor, a grand failure of our space-based instruments and ever-gathering conspiracy theorists… Russ Swan considers a peculiar series of events There's something odd going on, and careful...
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Comment And Analysis
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The Colours of Iron

December 11, 2018
Insight
'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Focal Point, Geology, Materials, Materials Science
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Science is a very human endeavor

December 6, 2018
Insight
Scientists are a hard working bunch. Very hard working in fact – but even you need time to consider other parts of your life. After all, says Matthew Partridge, science...
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Clowning around with cynicism

November 29, 2018
Insight
Cynicism is no stranger to us here on the Science light desk. Indeed it has become a close and valued ally. A comforting mental overcoat, arming us for the oh-so-smug...
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Comment And Analysis
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A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

November 29, 2018
Insight
This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year history, feature not one but two lecturers. Accompanying Professor Alice Roberts for her Who am...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

November 28, 2018
Insight
Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is determined to reduce the cost of next generation cancer therapies by using...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Split the difference

November 22, 2018
Insight
Our brains can integrate left and right functions... so why can't our society do the same?
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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