Insights

Climbing Everest

October 8, 2016
Greg Foot, Science Presenter on the BBC and YouTube will be speaking at Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s leading event dedicated to laboratory professionals, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on...

Man and machine or man vs machine?

October 6, 2016
Can artificial intelligence carry out scientific research?

Wonderful poison

October 3, 2016
Some weird and wonderful facts about venom

Male fan-throated lizard

October 3, 2016
This is a male fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana), a species found on open ground and in sparse forests across the Indian subcontinent.

Rat sperm and rocks with personalities that dazzle

October 3, 2016
It was most definitely party time here on the Science Lite desk a few weeks back – for it was the most important time of our year – the Ig...

Time for very careful scrutiny of the Higher Education & Research Bill

September 29, 2016
Over the summer, CaSE convened a workshop on the Higher Education & Research Bill attended by around 40 people from CaSE member organisations and collaborators across academia, industry, charities and...

Common fangtooth

September 26, 2016
One of the ocean's "monsters" is the Common Fangtooth, Anoplogaster cornuta, which has some of the biggest teeth for its size in the animal kingdom.

Good hair day for mathematicians

September 20, 2016
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems that have tested and teased humanity’s love affair with numbers for generations. And it is...

Juvenile octopod

September 18, 2016
The Atlantic Longarm Octopus, Macrotritopus defi llipi, mimics flounders on the sea floor.

Back to reality

September 15, 2016
As the summer draws to a close, time to get back into the swing of laboratory work.

Coming together for microbiology

September 13, 2016
From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological fields promise much. But before they can deliver, specialists need to come together.

Jeweled Squid

September 12, 2016
The Jeweled Squid, Stigmatoteuthis arcturi (top left), is an interesting mesopelagic squid.

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