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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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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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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
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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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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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An immigration system that supports science

April 9, 2018
Insight
In recent months, UK employers have encountered issues with recruiting staff from outside of the EU. The main route of recruitment of skilled individuals from outside the EU is on...
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Cliche and chemical weapons

April 6, 2018
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As the sorry tale of a former Russian double agent and his daughter escalates, once again chemistry is dragged into the gutter of war.It may not have come to that...
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So near, yet so far

April 6, 2018
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To PhD students and supervisors everywhere – it may be a very tough road, but help is at hand. Prey silence please… for the thesis whisperer I am the director...
Life Sciences
Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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The sense of touch is incredibly important

April 5, 2018
Insight
Incredible work on the neurobiology of touch means we are on the road to rewiring the sense in paralyzed patients. Here are some stats showing how important touch can be…
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Mosquito larva

April 5, 2018
Insight
This image of Mosquito larva gave Charles Krebs of Issaquah in Washington image of distinction in the 43rd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Environment, Focal Point
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On the age-old question of polishing a turd…

March 27, 2018
Insight
You can’t, the saying goes, polish a turd. Possibly not – but you can increase the market value of said defecatory effusion so as to render a polish unnecessary.Let us...
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