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  • A little leaven

    Our serialized novel by Alison Christy continues

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    Bill Hanage on science and the economy

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    Scientist Rebecca Nesbit shares her passion for butterfly research

  • Earth, the final frontier

    More original science poetry from John Thomas Clark

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    Interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    Original fiction from Axel Brennicke

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  • The Day After Today

    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Dr. Flirt

    Can a PhD attract women?

  • Bad cop

    Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists

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    Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys

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    Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up

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• In the news

  • "Fictional quantum conspiracy"

    LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature

  • What is LabLit.com?

    Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast

  • "From bench to book"

    LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in Nature

  • Behind the scenes

    Q&A of LabLit's editor in Nature

  • "Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"

    LabLit's editor in Laboratory News

  • "LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"

    Scott Keir, Nature Network London

  • "Why aren't white coats sexy?"

    LabLit's editor writes in The Biochemist

  • "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"

    novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com

  • "FUN: Still life, with test tube"

    Science magazine recommends LabLit

  • "Experimental fiction"

    LabLit's editor talks fiction in Nature

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist