Insights

Words, glorious words

November 8, 2016
With interchangeable meanings and ever shifting definitions – maintaining a comprehensive scientific lexicon is basically impossible says Russ Swan

(Not so) slippery when wet

November 4, 2016
The gang try to grasp why our fingers wrinkle...

King’s Gully

November 2, 2016
A rift canyon forming part of the King's Gully in Ireland.

Artificial health

November 2, 2016
Examples of how AI is involved in scientific research

Asgardia – groundbreaking or simply an elaborate ruse?

November 1, 2016
I simply don’t know what to make if it. A new notion of the nation state, a scientific utopia, a vision of the future – or one man’s deluded fever...

How do we use evidence better in society today?

October 29, 2016
Dr Anusha Panjwani looks at the increasing need to better convey evidence based research.

Our greatest achievement or our biggest mistake?

October 25, 2016
Artificial intelligence carries as many risks as benefits, especially when it comes to military uses, says Dr Michael Reinsborough as he implores us to demand openess to avoid the mistakes...

What’s in a label?

October 20, 2016
Time to stick it to The Man and play both fast and loose with H&S in the lab? Bad idea says Dr Matthew Partridge as he ponders…

Swarms of Chrysaora fuscescens

October 18, 2016
Pacific sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens.

How will UK science be protected during Brexit?

October 18, 2016
Dr Anusha Panjwani writes on the challenges facing UK science in the wake of the Brexit vote.

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it…

October 13, 2016
After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE on the strange world of quantum biology

Time to abolish embargoes?

October 10, 2016
Time to tell the world about your work…but not just yet. Russ Swan on the unnecessary nuisance of scientific embargoes

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