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Get ready to make a move

November 16, 2015
We’ve had a bit of re-jig in my labs and I’ve just sorted out a larger chemical lab space.

UK Science and a possible Brexit

November 15, 2015
To misquote Monty Python: what has the EU ever done for you?

Is science running out of names to call things?

November 9, 2015
Modern science faces a huge crisis says Russ Swan, one we have taken to calling the No Ability to Mine our Imagination and Name Greatly crisis, or ‘NAMING’ for short...

Paris Climate Conference – intervention or toothless?

November 4, 2015
It was always going to be a near impossible task. So simple to summarise yet so difficult to accomplish. We need to burn less fossil fuels.

The extreme science of ‘White Mars’

November 2, 2015
In one of the coldest, most isolated and remote places on Earth, a multicultural crew of 13 perform challenging research in a wide variety of fields and maintain the Italian-French...

Veil Nebula

November 2, 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small section of the debris of one of the best-known supernova remnants – Veil Nebula – in stunning detail.

New species of mites found in Taiwan

November 1, 2015
Gahrliepia (Gateria) lieni is one of three new species of mites found in Taiwan.

Is that a bee-sting in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

October 26, 2015
Rarely is physical suffering a suitable topic for a whimsical column like Science Lite. The wry lens through which we attempt to view certain aspects of science can’t really be...

Stinging hydroid

October 19, 2015
An expedition to the Philippines revealed more than 100 marine species new to science.

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock talks exoplanets, public engagement and citizen science

October 19, 2015
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, MBE, space scientist and all round science communication heroine talks exoplanets, public engagement and why astronomy is for everyone

Spending Review uncertainty

October 15, 2015
On Saturday 9th October 2010, tourists bustled around Westminster, as they usually do, taking pictures of Big Ben and peering through the gates of Downing Street.

Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

October 14, 2015
Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

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