Insights

Number Cruncher 4

July 1, 2013
Water research has been beset with controversy - but here are some things that we do know...

Literary explorations of laboratory life

June 20, 2013
Talk about art imitating life – see how the rise of ‘Lab Lit’ has got Russ Swan in a literary lather… Darius stared at the cloudy fluid nestling in the...

What’s in a name?

June 14, 2013
Not content with Academy Awards? Now you only really know you’ve ‘made it’ when a new species bears your name…But what would Carl Linnaeus think? “A celebrity these days means...

Chris Lintott talks astronomy and citizen science

June 8, 2013
Fast becoming the face of astronomy after his success on The Sky at Night – Chris Lintott also pioneered the concept of citizen science in the field with Galaxy Zoo,...

The age of organic supercomputing

June 1, 2013
“Big data” has well and truly entered into the lexicon of science. Large data sets are vital – defining even – for many disciplines in which it is often the...

Number Cruncher 3

June 1, 2013
Exoplanets are planets the reside outside of our solar system

Paying homage to inspiration

May 31, 2013
The great thing about scientists – well, one of the many great things about scientists – is that, at heart, they are big kids. Not, you understand, that they run...

Talking cancer-beating proton beams with Professor Carsten Welsch

May 26, 2013
There is more to accelerator physics than just smashing sub atomic particles against each other and putting together the puzzle of the universe. Here, Professor Carsten Welsch, Associate Director of...

Nothing more than this year’s best guess

May 12, 2013
 Don’t panic, but everything you think you know could be wrong. Sit down and let Russ Swan hold your hand through this difficult realisation…  DO YOU know something? In fact,...

Giving a soapbox to pseudoscience

May 10, 2013
 The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media still providing a platform for a discredited scientist?Wales’ current measles outbreak...

Not abiding by the constraints of species

May 1, 2013
On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Responsible for nearly 30 million deaths, HIV can, at the very least, be...

Number Cruncher 2

May 1, 2013
Zoonisis is the transfer of infectious disease between species

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