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What a tip…

Added: 28 Feb 2020

A life-long fascination, a haven for rare species and a multi-legged monster new to science… Liam O…

Give it some mussel

Added: 18 Feb 2020

The adhesive properties of mussels are inspiring incredible innovations – from making sorbents, cle…

Catching the elusive neutrino

Added: 16 Jan 2020

From seeing a blackhole form to understanding antimatter… neutrinos could hold the keys to them all…

An ode to imagination

Added: 15 Jan 2020

Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…

The hidden power of mathematics

Added: 12 Dec 2019

As she gets set to tread the boards for the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Dr Hannah Fry tal…

Just good sense

Added: 29 Nov 2019

Síle  Lane is on a mission to challenge misrepresentation of science and evidence. She is leading t…

Seeing into a black heart

Added: 28 Oct 2019

Big problems need big solutions and can, on occasion, lead to big successes. Such it is with one of…

Playing it for laughs

Added: 14 Oct 2019

We catch-up with presenter, comedian and science outreacher extraordinaire Helen Arney to talk stan…

The poetry of science

Added: 6 Sep 2019

From explaining scientific concepts to the public to replacing traditional scientific abstracts wit…

A real chemical showman

Added: 28 Aug 2019

Science populariser and chemist extraordinaire Andrea Sella will be a keynote speaker at this year’…

Five things you learn from working in cleanrooms

Added: 19 Aug 2019

Want to avoid committing a serious faux pas before you start working in cleanrooms? That would be h…

In his element

Added: 29 Jul 2019

We spoke to astrobiologist Robert Hazen whose new book, Symphony in C, draws parallels between carb…

Just play the game

Added: 10 Jun 2019

Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

We’ll drink to that

Added: 3 Jun 2019

Dr Leonardo Chiappisi and Dr Isabelle Grillo are fascinated with the popular Italian liquor limonce…

Where is the evidence in policy making?

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When called upon to speak truth to power, CaSE’s very own James Tooze stepped up to the mark in fro…

A very fertile mind

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 3 May 2019

Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel …

Beyond the usual suspects

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Having trained as a physicist, I find the Francis Crick Institute’s strategy of ‘discovery without…

Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

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Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly im…

Making the Crick… tick

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An intriguing invitation took Dr Emily Scott-Dearing behind the scenes of The Francis Crick Institu…

One man’s trash

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Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…