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Microscopic subway passengers with a ticket to ride

January 22, 2016
A complete map of the microbiome of the New York City subway system? It’s possible – and all it takes is a few eager students, some swabs and a toddler....

Antimicrobial resistance – a disaster in the making?

January 8, 2016
After the emergence of yet another antibiotic resistance mechanism in the form of MCR-1, the future of medicine looks bleak. But there is hope says Gunnar Kahlmeter.

Over the moon for extreme lecture

December 14, 2015
This year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer, Dr Kevin Fong, takes his responsibility to the next generation of scientists very seriously

A hole new approach

December 11, 2015
Jemma Rowlandson tells us how nanoporous materials are set to take on the world, and win

From bright stars to dark energy

November 23, 2015
Dr Rita Tojeiro was recently awarded one of five 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland Women In Science Fellowships, worth £15,000, to drive her research on dark energy forward. We caught...

The extreme science of ‘White Mars’

November 2, 2015
In one of the coldest, most isolated and remote places on Earth, a multicultural crew of 13 perform challenging research in a wide variety of fields and maintain the Italian-French...

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock talks exoplanets, public engagement and citizen science

October 19, 2015
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, MBE, space scientist and all round science communication heroine talks exoplanets, public engagement and why astronomy is for everyone

The surprising creativity of digital evolution

October 5, 2015
A creative machine may seem like somewhat of a paradox. We tend to think machines do strictly what they have been programmed to do. It turns out that machines can...

Mind on matter – Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

September 14, 2015
Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current work and why we should love our material world You’ve recently published a paper on material stimuli...

Relaunching the power of fluorine

September 4, 2015
DuPont 2015 Chemistry Student Award winner Sébastien Alazet talks fluorine and how to reinvigorate a whole branch of chemistry…The fluorine atom is one of the most powerful atoms in the...

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