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When does an abbreviation stop being one?

March 8, 2017
Insight
Scientific abbreviations are getting longer, and Russ Swan’s patience is getting shorter…so much so that a recent abridgement caused a Carry-on style kerfuffle… I have a growing problem with abbreviations,...
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A right royal success

March 6, 2017
Insight
Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set about developing an oncological knock-out punch. Here she talks microbeads, cancer starvation, and the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Amongst the obvious, the obscure does lurk

March 3, 2017
Insight
There are times when convention must be breached. Be it to introduce a new theory or experimental method, or – and this may be less obvious – when contriving to...
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A new science chief

March 1, 2017
Insight
After a long and winding appointments process, with a few dead-ends and about-turns, Professor Sir Mark Walport was announced as the new CEO of UKRI – a new organisation that...
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Comment And Analysis
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The science behind the silk

March 1, 2017
Insight
What has scientists so interested in silk?
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Finding the elusive ‘They’

March 1, 2017
Insight
I’d like to introduce you to an increasingly conspicuous crowd. Semi-mythical – to be found roaming the plains of human knowledge handing down decrees unbidden to the little people.
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Trappist travel poster

March 1, 2017
Insight
A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist 1b-h.
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Earth & Environmental, Focal Point, Geology, Physics
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What does the new year hold for science?

February 27, 2017
Insight
The word of 2016 was ‘post-truth’ but as we start 2017 the Government are majoring on ‘productivity’.
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Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

February 21, 2017
Insight
Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about the science – and the art – of cancer drug discoveryWhy did you decide...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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A little kindness can go a long way

February 15, 2017
Insight
Underfunded labs, equipment shortages and missing reagents – there’s a solution to all this says Dr Matthew Partridge – and it’s right under our noses
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Camping stove plume

February 13, 2017
Insight
An image of heat rising from a camping stove.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Focal Point, Geology
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Time to dissolve bias in STEM

February 10, 2017
Insight
On the eve of the UN’s International day for women and girls in science we spoke to Dr Sarah Hosgood about the importance of a sustained effort to encourage women...
Life Sciences
Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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