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Surviving Scientific Conferences

Mary O'Neill

One of the fun things about working in science is the scientific meeting. Lots of free tea and coffee, buffet lunches, an evening of free booze and a lovely dinner. But how to make the most of them?

(c) Xavier Snelgrove

Lost your bottle?

Jemima Stockton

Whether you love or loath the white stuff, it is unavoidable on your TV and in your paper. What is milk, is it good for us, and what type should we drink?

(c) rosevita (Morguefile)

Why drink Wine ?

Varuna Aluvihare

I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.

(c) Penny Firth

The Plight of the Bumblebee

Catherine Zentile

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint utterance’ that was so admired by Wordsworth is under threat because bumblebees are in crisis: of the 25 species native to Britain, three have already been declared extinct. But why are they suffering and what can we do to stem the problem...?

(c) Charlotte Rusby

Protein Origami: Pop-up Books & Nature's Polymers

Charlotte Rusby

What do pop-up books and some of the most fundamental molecules of life have in common? Charlotte Rusby enters a world 100 million times smaller than the bookshelf to find out...

CITES and Trade in Threatened Species

Helen Scales

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) aims to regulate the trade in animal and plant species threatened with extinction throu gh worldwide trade, legal or illegal. Helen has a look at its workings.

(c) Liftarn

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

Philip Strange

In 1943 a chemist working in Basel became the first person to experience the effects of LSD, albeit by accident. But how did he made the drug, where did it originate and how does it work? Philip Strange explains...

Bar Flies

Ruth Williams

The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must be pretty pleasant work. Ruth Williams looks at hangover flies - fruitfly mutants lacking the ability to handle their beer.

(c) Human Genome Project

Unpacking the Human Genome Project

Kat Arney

Hold the front page! Some white-coated genius somewhere has found a gene for violence: suddenly our streets will be a safer place. Or how about genes for obesity and ageing, so we can look forward to becoming a nation of pert young things?

(c) LiquidGhoul

How animals develop from an embryo

Adel Fattah

Adel looks at the nuts and bolts of building an animal from genes right up to bones, and discusses similarities between vertebrates and why crabs and other Crustaceans are actually living upside down...

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