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A sweet mission

April 30, 2013
Rarely would we be so bold as to start this column with a quote from one of the most harrowing poems ever penned. Yet upon receiving our Editor’s brief this...

Every silver lining has a cloud

April 24, 2013
We have entered the golden age of scientific imaging, thinks Russ Swan, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing…Of the armoury of instruments at your disposal...

Arguing about Antarctica

April 15, 2013
 Hype about unclassified life found in sub-glacial Lake Vostok has led to an almighty squabble between scientists. Could peer review be the antidote to the argument?  “We’ve found something new!”“Oh,...

Scott R. White – The man who can heal materials

April 5, 2013
For many the work of Scott R. White seems like magic – he can make material heal itself when cracked. We caught up with the professor of aerospace engineering and...

A cosmologist’s delight

April 2, 2013
Cosmologists – you’ll no doubt be unsurprised to learn – are quite a hard bunch to please. The questions they ask push the boundaries of what it is currently possible...

Number Cruncher

April 1, 2013
De-extinction is a new field of science resulting from the convergence of rapid advances in molecular biology with new conservational perspectives. It involves using these new technologies to attempt to...

Kind of blue…

March 31, 2013
We come to you this month from on high, floating in a miasmic cloud of our own delight. Something rare has happened. Something very rare indeed.Three little words. That’s all...

An acquired taste…

March 14, 2013
Is musical preference a representation of self-expression or a function of education and exposure?Self-confessed music snobs may find the latest findings from the University of Melbourne a little disappointing.Researchers there...

Shouting out about bad science in the media

March 12, 2013
Shouting at the TV – madness or necessity? Russ Swan loves a good shout whenever he spots a scientific inaccuracy, and he thinks you should join him…You don't need me...

The infiltration of rogue information

March 1, 2013
For me, the past month can be summed up in one word; infiltration. Horse meat has infiltrated our food chain and, more worryingly for me, rogue ‘facts’ seem to have...

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