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Need a new holiday destination? Let us help

November 17, 2014
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Bored of the same old holiday destinations? Want to try something a bit different? Let Russ Swan take you on a journey out of this world… Autumn means it’s time...
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Number Cruncher 20

November 14, 2014
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New research suggests the ozone hole is shrinking; here are some atmospherostats
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How to hack your home with Ri Christmas lecturer Danielle George

November 12, 2014
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We catch up with this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer Danielle George to find out what she has in store for budding young scientists, and what she’ll be doing over...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Reverting to type…prototype

November 10, 2014
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Prototypes are things of beauty. I've made a few over the years and each one is a fantastic bodge of barely hanging together cardboard, gaffer tape, blue tac and sheer...
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The ‘omics’ revolution

November 3, 2014
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The ‘omics’ revolution that has taken place in biology over the last few decades promises to yield so much. Yet undoubtedly we will have to wait a while before this...
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There’s something you should know about dogs…

October 27, 2014
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There are times, dear reader, when the miasma of lethargy within which the Science Lite team ordinarily operates is blown away. Times when our collective attention is scruffed roughly and...
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Number Cruncher 19

October 20, 2014
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Stephen Hawking thinks we should think again about the nature of black holes. Here we take a look at some black hole statistics
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We’ve got it all wrong

October 20, 2014
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From outrage to a rising dawn of realisation – when it comes to the way we name ourselves and our pursuits, Russ Swan thinks scientists have got it all wrong…...
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Give technicians ‘key worker’ status

October 15, 2014
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Dr Ramsay Richmond, executive manager of Queen Mary Bioenterprises explains why we need to nurture our technicians There’s a word in the German language – fingerspitzengefühl – which literally means...
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Dr Tracy Briggs awarded For Women in Science Fellowship

October 13, 2014
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Dr Tracy Briggs was recently awarded one of four UK & Ireland L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowships to further her research into the understanding of single-gene disorders that lead...
Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Interviews
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Taking a COSHH to the head

October 6, 2014
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A few weeks ago I made a terrible mistake of taking the day off. Normally, a nice day off would be a good thing but sadly I managed to take...
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Respect in the face of desolation

October 1, 2014
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Tunneling through mountains, creating entire islands where once open ocean dominated, razing swathes of forest  – this is big engineering to meet big ambition; engineering which many would class as...
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