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The flora and fauna of modern forensics

June 6, 2018
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The postmortem microbiome, forensic botany and some very angry creationists… when Professor Nathan H. Lents isn’t pushing forensic science in a very interesting direction he is writing some rather fabulous...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Forensics, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Is it time for science embrace coffee shop culture?

May 22, 2018
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Cheap, sociable and a brilliant source of delicious beverages – Matthew Partridge ponders the possible joy of moving from the lab and into the coffee shop Coffee shops are the...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Government must work hard to meet its research and development target

May 21, 2018
Insight
When it comes to investment in science - Government don't have a plan to reach their own targets...In mid-April, the Public Accounts committee released a report1 on research and development...
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Comment And Analysis
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Therapeutics LIVE!

May 21, 2018
Insight
It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the blood stream and could be a potent medicinal weapon… yet there is...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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The importance of green chemistry

May 15, 2018
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Green chemistry has had an incredible impact over the last 20 years – here are some stats showing just how important it continues to be…
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Comment And Analysis
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Everyone is invited to the science party

May 10, 2018
Insight
Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the Scientific Laboratory Show talking about society’s relationship with science, technology and engineering. We...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Holiday season brings volcanic dreams

May 8, 2018
Insight
For goodness sake - can't science and engineering give us a holiday in paradise without the Earth turning itself inside out?    In one of our many – many –...
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Comment And Analysis
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Pound of flesh

May 8, 2018
Insight
In light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ Swan can’t help but wonder if we are living in a parallel dystopia  In...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Tick-tock, tick-tock

May 3, 2018
Insight
How long, do you think, we will be doing science? It is now impossible to ignore the fact that the clock must be ticking down.I should stress, I think empirical...
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Comment And Analysis
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At the risk of being an idiot

April 23, 2018
Insight
Time for the Science lite desk to admit, as much as it might pain us, that we are idiots.We do idiotic things. Many idiotic things. In fact we have lost...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Are scientists part of the plastic problem?

April 18, 2018
Insight
Single-use consumables are rapidly becoming the norm in many laboratories _– so how are we to address a tsunami of plastic lab waste? A snowy find has given Russ Swan...
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Comment And Analysis
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The art of the matter

April 13, 2018
Insight
Last month we chatted with Dr Iris Salecker of the Visual Circuit Assembly Laboratory to find out what happened when she let an artist loose in her lab… this month...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Geology, Interviews
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