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Is it time for science embrace coffee shop culture?

May 22, 2018
Cheap, sociable and a brilliant source of delicious beverages – Matthew Partridge ponders the possible joy of moving from the lab and into the coffee shop Coffee shops are the...

Government must work hard to meet its research and development target

May 21, 2018
When it comes to investment in science - Government don't have a plan to reach their own targets...In mid-April, the Public Accounts committee released a report1 on research and development...

The importance of green chemistry

May 15, 2018
Green chemistry has had an incredible impact over the last 20 years – here are some stats showing just how important it continues to be…

Holiday season brings volcanic dreams

May 8, 2018
For goodness sake - can't science and engineering give us a holiday in paradise without the Earth turning itself inside out?    In one of our many – many –...

Pound of flesh

May 8, 2018
In light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ Swan can’t help but wonder if we are living in a parallel dystopia  In...

Tick-tock, tick-tock

May 3, 2018
How long, do you think, we will be doing science? It is now impossible to ignore the fact that the clock must be ticking down.I should stress, I think empirical...

At the risk of being an idiot

April 23, 2018
Time for the Science lite desk to admit, as much as it might pain us, that we are idiots.We do idiotic things. Many idiotic things. In fact we have lost...

Are scientists part of the plastic problem?

April 18, 2018
Single-use consumables are rapidly becoming the norm in many laboratories _– so how are we to address a tsunami of plastic lab waste? A snowy find has given Russ Swan...

An immigration system that supports science

April 9, 2018
In recent months, UK employers have encountered issues with recruiting staff from outside of the EU. The main route of recruitment of skilled individuals from outside the EU is on...

Cliche and chemical weapons

April 6, 2018
As the sorry tale of a former Russian double agent and his daughter escalates, once again chemistry is dragged into the gutter of war.It may not have come to that...

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