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Can you speak pharmacish?

February 12, 2013
Modern medicine – one of humanities greatest on-going endeavours and saviour of countless lives. But have you ever actually read a medicine bottle? Russ Swan gives us a lesson in...

How experiments really happen

February 10, 2013
Scientists take to Twitter to reveal the hilarious truth behind their not so scientific methods...Select a respected journal, open it at any article and marvel at the evidence of careful...

Is space trade the first step to colonisation?

February 1, 2013
The era of humanity’s presence in space is entering a new dawn. Until now we have looked to the heavens with wonder in our eyes – now it seems as...

A scientific New Year’s resolution

January 17, 2013
The modern paradigm of ‘Big Data’ is all well and good – but does harvesting it leave room for inspiration? Russ Swan would like us all just to slow down...

Contemplating the benefits of a year in Space

January 14, 2013
Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety of 2012 in space? Two astronauts will soon get to experience...

A new energy production paradigm

January 2, 2013
The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.The talks held in Doha at the end of last year ended in the...

Human enhancement: will the benefits outweigh the costs?

December 13, 2012
Colossal advances in human enhancement technologies could allow us to overcome the current limits of the human body, changing the future of work for ever. But will this be harmful...

A little Application…

December 3, 2012
Never has the term ‘generation gap’ been quite so relevant to me as when my 3-year-old recently tried desperately get her good, old-fashioned, paper-based sticker book to access the internet....

On a mission statement mission

December 3, 2012
Marketing strategy seems increasingly important, yet Russ Swan finds himself frustrated with contrived mission statements that do little to informIF I HAD a pork pie hat and Ray-Bans, I’d be...

Science Lite: Jurassic fantasies will never be a reality

November 28, 2012
Fans of this page may remember that two issues ago, the ScienceLite desk got into trouble for feigning intelligence and evolutionary insight using a quote from Jurassic Park. Sadly our...

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