Insights

Designing tomorrow’s lab – today

May 15, 2017
SmartLAB made its debut in 2015, and is the product of more than 10 companies working together to design the laboratories of tomorrow. Due to make another appearance at LABVOLUTION...

Tinker, tailor, soldier, scientist…

May 15, 2017
Service engineers may well wince, but when it comes to equipment, it's high time scientists remembered they are natural tinkerers says Matthew Partridge

To commercialise great science, inspire young scientists

May 11, 2017
Steve Bennett thinks that developing and commercialising great science is really very simple… it starts with our children

Inside the head of a manipulator

May 9, 2017
Parasitism is well known, but what happens when the parasite becomes the parasitised? Dr Kelly Weinersmith explains her work with Dr Scott Egan on the oddity of hypermanipulation

Public Speaking with a Pint of Science

May 8, 2017
As an example of scientific outreach, Pint of Science has all the ingredients for success. But, says Russ Swan, however well versed you are in your science – the art...

Making the case for evidence

May 5, 2017
In the UK’s snap election campaign, will voters be fed up of experts? Or will the claims and counterclaims of the EU referendum and previous polls make the general public...

How hard is it to create antimatter?

May 3, 2017
Antimatter is crucial to understanding how the universe works - but how hard is it to create it?

A spring in your step

May 3, 2017
Spring, as they say, has most definitely sprung. As the daffodils sway gently in the breeze and lambs skip youthfully in the lush fields, Nature turns her mind to all...

Human brain

May 2, 2017
This spectacular image of the human brain has been made with a combination of hand drawing, neuroscientific data, algorithmic simulation of neural circuitry, photolithography, strategic lighting design, and gilding.

The endless complexity of nature

May 1, 2017
Nature really can be a swirling, contradictory mess; her simplicity so often a facade propped up by savage complexity.

Hawaiian bobtail squid

April 24, 2017
This image shows a baby Hawaiian bobtail squid, measuring just 1.5 cm across.

Time to end the data massage

April 17, 2017
Matthew Partridge has a gentle reminder for us all: experiments don’t lie; researchers lie when they don’t like the experiment and ‘correct’ the data…

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