Science
Successful scientists: What’s the winning formula?
Nobel-prize winning biologist and pre-eminent stem cell scientist John Gurdon may not have had the best start to his career according to his school report, but for many more of today’s scientists their curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge started in the classroom.
By Corinne Pritchard | Notebook, Science & Technology | Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 6:00 am
Women in science: Physics is not done better by men
The Institute of Physics report last week on the lack of girls progressing on to study physics at A-level continues to cause concern but is not surprising. Of course we need more positive female role models in the sciences and physics in particular and of course the media need to give more exposure to those that do exist.
By David Porter | Notebook, Science & Technology | Friday, 19 October 2012 at 6:16 pm
David Cameron, #FurryBear, LinkedIn, #DNA – why are they trending?
What’s trending and why?
By Emily Jupp | Notebook | Thursday, 6 September 2012 at 11:38 am
Women in Science: What have the chemists ever done for us?
Let’s face it: there is wonderful chemistry in everything that surrounds us. Chemistry is behind simple things from colourful clothes, makeup and other beauty products to delicious fresh food and drink. Never believe the labels that say “chemical free” – it’s impossible.
By Lesley Yellowlees | Notebook, Science & Technology | Friday, 20 July 2012 at 3:54 pm
Teaching creationism: Indoctrination is a form of child abuse
Anyone who tells children that God – literally – created the world in seven days 6,000 years ago is guilty of perverting education.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 20 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Dressed to kill: What do infectious disease agents have in their wardrobes?
The ability of certain pathogens, such as those which cause malaria, influenza and HIV, to disguise themselves and evade host immunity poses an enormous challenge to developing vaccines against these important diseases. Just what do these bugs have in their wardrobes that enables them to keep outwitting us? Can we find a way to use this knowledge against them?
By Sunetra Gupta | Notebook, Science & Technology | Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 12:38 pm
Women in Science: So how do plants know when to flower?
The flush of flowering of poppies in a field makes the point very visually – the control of flowering time is a tightly regulated process. All the poppies choose to flower within a day or two of each other, having individually integrated a range of environmental and endogenous signals over many months.
By Caroline Dean | Notebook, Science & Technology | Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 11:07 am
Women in Science: Cracking the code in the battle of the sexes
Understanding how males and females in animals in general differ at the genetic level helps us understand human sex differences.
By Judith Mank | Notebook, Science & Technology | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 3:13 pm
Women in Science: Goo and the physics of the everyday stuff that surrounds us
Given recent press coverage, you might be forgiven for thinking that all physicists were interested in was the Higgs Boson. But our research fields extend much further than the ultra-small particles under study at Geneva in the Large Hadron Collider or, at the other extreme, the enormous distances of remote galaxies and stars studied by astrophysicists.
By Athene Donald | Notebook | Monday, 16 July 2012 at 10:34 am
Women in Science: Unexpected aliens
For those of you who have watched James Cameron’s Avatar, if you cast your mind back you might remember that in this film a well-informed fantastical ecology was created, with many of its constituent animals and plants showing utterly alien traits, such as six-legged elephant-horses, and bizarre iridescent blue plants.
By Heather Whitney | Notebook, Science & Technology | Saturday, 14 July 2012 at 4:00 am
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