Insights

Shout from the rooftops, or mumble under your breath?

May 20, 2016
Communicating your research is important – but how to strike the right tone? Dr Matthew Partridge tries to find the line between spin and boredom…

Translational research…and beyond

May 19, 2016
Professor Nicholas Lemoine, keynote speaker for ON Helix 2016, tells us about how translational research improves health outcomes for patients.

Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?

May 16, 2016
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this disease were...

Understanding the nuclear long game

May 9, 2016
With the UK likely to turn to nuclear power more in the future, the importance of how best to dispose of nuclear waste will become more pressing.

Chef de science

May 4, 2016
Professor Peter Barnham speaks on the science of molecular gastronomy.

Climatology

May 3, 2016
Facts and figures on the future prediction of climates around the world.

Dumbing it down for the masses

May 3, 2016
We are in something of a boom period for popularising science, especially on TV. But, says Russ Swan, is it dumbed down so much as to be pointless?

Honey bee stinger

May 3, 2016
Image of a honey bee's stinger at 20x magnification with a confocal microscope.

The parable of Boaty McBoatface….

April 29, 2016
I am not a humourless dullard. Really, I’m not.

My, what a busy cortex…

April 29, 2016
Next Tuesday is the day. Most certainly. Oh yes, there is no turning back now. Next Tuesday it will be that we on the Science Lite desk give up smoking.

Pandemic

April 25, 2016
Facts and figures about pandemics

New Budget….so what’s different?

April 25, 2016
March 2016 saw the Chancellor George Osborne announce his eighth budget from the Dispatch Box, and there was mixed news for science and engineering.

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