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2020's top 100 highlights in research and scholarly commentary
Added: 21 Jan 2021
Good science thrives - even during a pandemic! We all know what dominated most of our thoughts in 2…
Planet Earth: A user’s guide
Added: 4 Dec 2020
In the 2020 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, three expert scientists from different fields wil…
Nonscience Returns: You can get away with anything on TV
Added: 2 Nov 2020
Biologist and broadcaster Professor Brian J Ford’s satire on science has just been updated as Nonsc…
Lessons learnt from a zero-carbon laboratory
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Mathew Butler reviews the operation of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemis…
Making it happen: young people aren’t just the leaders of tomorrow
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Freelance nextgen reporter, Amy Grace, interviews Mhairi McCann; one of the Women in Engineering So…
lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Stuck in the middle
Added: 23 Oct 2020
In sympathy with all those researchers out there trying to get the tough papers writer, Dr Matthew …
Career chances for technicians shouldn’t be a matter of luck
Added: 20 Oct 2020
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The Royal Society of Chemistry’s former president Carol Robinson talks through h…
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…
Scientists and policy experts raise COVID-19 and climate crises analogues
Added: 8 Jul 2020
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went la…
Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small
Added: 29 May 2020
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public he…
Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…
Game Theory: Phylo
Added: 20 Dec 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner take us…
Festive footprint
Added: 19 Dec 2019
More than 11,000 scientists have warned of a “catastrophic hothouse Earth” that could result from c…
Pushing the lithium-ion limit
Added: 29 Oct 2019
As the global demand for consumer electronics, electric cars and renewable energy rise, the need fo…
Game Theory: Bone Wars
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, take u…
Singing the praises of odd numbers
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Annoy peer reviewers and create an inclusive numerical policy? It’s a win win for Dr Matthew Partri…
The good, the bad and the brexit
Added: 16 Sep 2019
The new Government has been in place for only a few weeks now and in that time, we’ve already had a…
Celebrating the improbable
Added: 13 Sep 2019
Another year, another heart-warming evening commemorating the silly, unusual and often random side …
Are you ready for show time?
Added: 9 Sep 2019
Once again we are delighted to have partnered with the Lab Innovations show – and we want you to be…
Ghost of science future
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Well, here we are. Four months from the completion of the second decade in the third millennium.
