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When two worlds collide

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Last month the Deconstructing Patterns exhibition opened at the Francis Crick Institute in London a…

Taking the fight to TB

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What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids…

A distinctly combinatorial approach

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 12 Feb 2018

As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet …

Taking on the resistance

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 12 Jan 2018

It is no secret that there is a desperate need for a response to antimicrobial resistance, so what …

Plastic (not so) fantastic

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 11 Jan 2018

Microplastic pollution of the oceans is a deadly ecological problem, yet oddly we cant find 99% of …

Exploring the void

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 20 Dec 2017

With the universe in constant motion, making reliable astrophysical observations can be tricky – es…

‘Tis the season for laughter and joy

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 18 Dec 2017

Fresh from delivering this year’s RI Christmas lectures, Professor Sophie Scott put her unique spin…

Pipetting in Hollywood

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 18 Oct 2017

Science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Lab Innovat…

Standing on SUCCESS

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 11 Oct 2017

How to mitigate rising CO2 levels? The answer says Ehsan Jorat is right under our feet. Here he tel…

A bastion of collaboration

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 18 Sep 2017

In January of next year, Professor Edith Heard will take on one of the most important jobs in Europ…

A spot of intergalactic dusting

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 11 Sep 2017

How to see through galactic dust in order to study the universe? Miguel Pereira Santaella thinks al…

When will we finally see red?

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 17 Aug 2017

The players are varied and the scene is set – so who will win the new space race? Astrophysicist An…

Apprenticeships: A good step forward, but nothing new

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 10 Aug 2017

They maybe much lauded, and rightly so, but apprenticeships in science are nothing new says Sir Ter…

A significantly different approach

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 20 Jul 2017

A recent study has thrown a spotlight on the very real problem of data fabrication. We caught up wi…

When we were asked for zombie eyes…

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 4 Jul 2017

Zombies can be recreated easily enough for the big screen with special effects and cosmetics. So wh…

Microscopy is always stronger together

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 28 Jun 2017

Correlative microscopy, massive data sets and citizen science – times are really booming for electr…

Putting it all on the table

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 19 Jun 2017

In 2015 four new elements were added to the periodic table. They remain – as do many of the heavy e…

Putting the biology into politics

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 9 Jun 2017

As the world gets used to the new political landscape – how much of the recent upset came down to b…

Do antibodies have to be hit and miss?

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 8 Jun 2017

From geneticist to frontline warrior in the antibody validation crisis – Dr Giancarlo Barone tells …

Using chemistry to get knotted

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 18 May 2017

Chemists at the University of Manchester have managed to tie a rather unusual knot – in fact it is …