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Welcome steps and missed opportunities

April 16, 2019
Set against the backdrop of ongoing political uncertainty, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement saw welcome steps and missed opportunities for science and engineering. The Chancellor_announced changes_to visa regulations for researchers: PhD-level...

The banality of nomenclature continues

April 8, 2019
Is there anything, we must ask, more exciting than the science of the unimaginably large and the near-infinitesimally small?For probing the extremes of our universe more likely than not holds...

Put that snack down you fools!

April 3, 2019
For all those that partake in the occasional lab-based munch, Dr Matthew Partridge has some gentle advice for you… I have a confession. Despite years of terrible paper work, awful online...

Quantum computer

April 2, 2019
A universal quantum computer will solve computational problems too vast to solve on a classical computer. But the quest to build one is inevitably a gradual one…

Particle accelerator

March 29, 2019
A new particle accelerator could bring unforeseen scientific discoveries that support emerging technologies. Even at its proposal stage, the FCC has racked up some impressive numbers...

‘Big’ doesn’t quite cover it

March 29, 2019
We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the way most science is done; indeed some science can only...

How science can inspire policy

March 13, 2019
The development of the Periodic Table is perhaps one of the finest feats of human ingenuity. In this, the year of the Periodic Table, I found myself reflecting on the...

Oi you… leave that experiment alone!

March 11, 2019
Don’t go and get all grabby if your experiment is not working says Matthew Partridge… just wait it out and keep your hands to yourself.The average science experiment has two...

Spending a penny to battle pandemics

March 11, 2019
As the seat-belt light stubbornly refuses to go out, and the three G&Ts sunk even before the pilot even levelled out begin to nip at the bladder, a visit to...

Brexitium and the new science guidelines

March 4, 2019
With tongue rammed firmly in cheek Russ Swan casts the wryest of eyes over the omni-shambles of Brexit and what it means for UK science…This is big. Having been granted...

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