Insights

The unbearable lightness of shrimp

April 23, 2015
It is, we sometimes find; sitting here eating doughnuts and drinking sweet tea, easy to forget the innate cruelness of Nature. To us, the barbarism that 99.9% of species on...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s a snake…seriously, a flying snake.

April 22, 2015
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a snake...seriously, a flying snake. Jake Socha, professor at Virginia Tech has been investigating this unusual behaviour So…flying snakes…who...

Here we look at some stats on the visual cortex

April 16, 2015
Visual illusions trick our brain into perceiving things that do not correspond to reality. Here we look at some stats on the part of the brain – the visual cortex –...

Going with the flow for medicine assembly line

April 15, 2015
Kerry Gilmore tells us how he is planning to revolutionise the individual batch approach to drug production… Science developed as a means to help us gain a sense of understanding...

Stop bleeding on my floor!

April 10, 2015
One of the parts of my job that I really enjoy is teaching the younger generation of scientists. Sharing my years of knowledge and experience, and watching them try to...

There’s only one way to settle this

March 26, 2015
Debate. It is, in so many ways, the bedrock of science. Without dissemination and, more importantly, critical analysis then findings become isolated – they wither on the vine.

The never ending dream of perpetual motion

March 20, 2015
When a moment’s idleness leads Russ Swan back to his childhood dream of perpetual motion he is surprised to learn that optimism is still used to do battle with Nature

Stats on mitochondria

March 19, 2015
Last month the house of Commons voted in favour of mitochondrial transfer, here we look at the stats of these cellular power houses...

Chemistry in the perfect coffee

March 18, 2015
Computational chemistry and coffee; not – you might imagine – natural bedfellows. But Theoretical and Computational Chemist Christopher Hendon begs to differ… You were at the World Barista Championships 2014...

The science of ‘dressgate’

March 13, 2015
White and gold or blue and black? That’s the question behind a record-breaking twitter storm – so which is it, and what can this tell us about the visual system?...

Using the force…

March 11, 2015
Dr Loren Picco is the founder of NanoDynamics, a spin-out of Bristol University aiming to revolutionise the world of Atomic Force Microscopy. Here he tells us how funding and mentoring...

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