Insights

The dish is dead, long live the dish!

August 31, 2016
The problem with Petri dishes – and this hardly needs saying really – is that they just don’t resemble 1980’s computer gaming classic Pac-Man closely enough.

Where does Theresa May stand on science and engineering?

August 29, 2016
It’s been a tumultuous few weeks in British politics since the result of the EU referendum two months ago. The country voted to leave, David Cameron resigned, and Theresa May...

Glass squid

August 29, 2016
Image of a glass squid, an animal that lives 200m to 1km under the ocean's surface.

Dragonfish

August 22, 2016
Image of a dragonfish with light emitting organs along its body.

Play nice and share

August 22, 2016
Tired of never having that vital piece of equipment to hand when you need it? Fear not, Dr Matthew Partridge has a solution – although you may not like it.

Nanoparticles

August 15, 2016
Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.

Time to disrupt

August 12, 2016
On a mission to question the inner workings of science itself, Gemma Milne and Lawrence Yolland say that difficult discussions are the only ones worth having…

Sparring is over, let the fight begin!

August 8, 2016
Worrying cases have already emerged suggesting we are missing out on EU science funding and collaboration opportunities. Not, however, due to the official removal of any EU funding, but as...

Meet the author of Rise of the Rocket Girls

August 8, 2016
Nathalia Holt, microbiologist-turned-author, tells us about her latest book, Rise of the Rocket Girls, which looks at the role of the female ‘human computers’ employed at NASA in the 1940s...

Theranos – scientific breakthrough or epic hoax?

August 3, 2016
A company on the brink of a scientific and medical breakthrough, or a hoax on an epic scale? Russ Swan considers the story of Theranos.

Parasitoid wasp

August 1, 2016
Image of a parasitoid wasp inside an latrine fly.

The growing popularity of biosimilars

August 1, 2016
A few facts concerning biosimilars, therapeutic agents that closely mimic an original biological molecule.

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