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Exploring the world under our feet with Paul Younger

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One scientist plays Indiana Jones to explore the world beneath our feet

Dating agency for scientists – not quite says Andrew McElroy

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A kind of dating agency for scientists; The Research Network at Discovery Park aim to find the right person for the right job.

Dr Daniel Müllensiefen on sing-along-able tunes

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We are the Champions, the 1977 classic from Queen has been named as the most sing-along-able song by scientists, that’s right science has got musical

Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil

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Drs Mary Ryan and Amy Cruickshank are in a race against time to save the last remaining intact Flying Pencil

Glassblowing with Paul Le Pinnet

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Award-winning glassblower Paul Le Pinnet, renowned for skilfully moulding molten glass into intricate shapes for cutting-edge lab experiments, has been honoured for his work. Scientific glassblowing is highly specialised and Paul is one of only 200 in the country to possess the skills to create…

Professor Bruce Hood would like to introduce you to – your brain

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Professor Bruce Hood has the honour of delivering this year’s Royal Institution lectures, and he has something he’d like to introduce you to – your brain

Award winning lecturer Chick C Wilson

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This month we catch up with a chemist from Bath who’s been lecturing on misbehaving molecules

Pathogenic microbes earn Dr Edward Feil a scientific Medal

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How do new pathogenic microbial strains evolve and spread? It is a question that occupies Dr Edward Feil, and it has just won him a Scientific Medal. Dr Edward Feil spends his days trying to discover what processes underpin the evolution of pathogenic bacteria, why they form and suddenly…

Edward Lemke opens doors for molecular biologists

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Introducing a single reactive artificial amino acid into a protein opens up a whole new world for molecular biologists – we speak to one of the scientists who made this possible and find out more… Edward Lemke is one of a group of scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory…

Roy Wogelius unlocks fossils’ secrets

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This month we speak to a geochemist who has been unlocking the secrets held in the skin of a 50 million year-old fossilised reptile Dr Roy A. Wogelius is among the first scientists to harness infrared methods for the analysis of fossils.

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