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How to write a paper (part 2)

September 7, 2015
Panic, co-authors and funny cats – you can put it off no longer, time to knuckle down in part 2 of Dr Matthew Partridge’s…

Relaunching the power of fluorine

September 4, 2015
DuPont 2015 Chemistry Student Award winner Sébastien Alazet talks fluorine and how to reinvigorate a whole branch of chemistry…The fluorine atom is one of the most powerful atoms in the...

A ‘good book’ to believe in…

September 1, 2015
Over the last few months on my way to the office I have been regularly told that I am going to hell. An elderly woman – who, despite her years,...

Cutesy language of modern space discovery…is it needed?

August 24, 2015
Cutesy language of modern space discovery...is it needed?

Rosette Nebula

August 20, 2015
Measuring 50 light years in diameter, the large, round Rosette Nebula is found on the edge of a molecular cloud in the constellation of Monoceros the Unicorn.

Orion Nebula

August 18, 2015
One of the most well-known astronomical objects in our universe is the Orion Nebula and this image depicts the wider region of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex that is home...

Should Tom have defecated near Jerry?

August 17, 2015
A small brown mouse peers tentatively from its nest. As it emerges – confidence growing – a creak in the wooden floor beneath its paws betrays its presence.

Aurora Panorama

August 13, 2015
The vivid green Northern Lights dance above Lyngenfjord, the longest fjord in Troms county in Norway, tracing out the shape of the Earth's magnetic field above the waters.

How to write a paper (part 1)

August 10, 2015
Hangers-on, the evil axis and ‘Chekhov’s gun’ – here Dr Matthew Partridge gives us some vital tips in Part 1 of…

Sea slug

August 7, 2015
A recent expedition to the Philippines revealed more than 100 marine species new to science.

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