Here are all our articles:
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Essay
Weird science
Digging behind the sofa cushions of the research literature
Reto Schneider (4 Jan '09) -
Fiction
Us and them
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 11
Alison Christy (4 Jan '09) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on science in the media
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Fiction
Hatch, match and dispatch
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 10
Alison Christy (28 Dec '08) -
Essay
Schrödinger’s hedge fund
What economics can learn from science
Bill Hanage (28 Dec '08) -
Review
Science engagement for grown-ups
TalkScience@BL.uk
Jennifer Rohn (21 Dec '08) -
Review
Crises and oddities
Eleventh Hour on CBS
Åsa Karlström (21 Dec '08) -
Fiction
Like mother like daughter
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 9
Alison Christy (20 Dec '08) -
Fiction
A beautiful soul
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 8
Alison Christy (14 Dec '08) -
Fiction
The end of science
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou (14 Dec '08) -
Quotation
Jerry Zucker on scientists
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Review
Scientific squabblings
The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes
Bill Hanage (7 Dec '08) -
Fiction
Lift from a stranger
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 7
Alison Christy (7 Dec '08) -
Fiction
Party Politics
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 6
Alison Christy (30 Nov '08) -
Lab Rats
On the fly
Research into butterfly migration proves rewarding
Rebecca Nesbit (30 Nov '08) -
Fiction
A little leaven
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 5
Alison Christy (23 Nov '08) -
Essay
New experiment in the White House
How will science fare under Obama?
Bill Hanage (23 Nov '08) -
Quotation
Nature editorial staff on uncommon descent
Richard P. Grant (23 Nov '08) -
Quotation
Nature editorial staff on financial meltdown
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Fiction
The Law of Moscow
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 4
Alison Christy (16 Nov '08) -
Interview
Explaining the world
Author and scientist Karl Iagnemma
Amy Charles (16 Nov '08) -
Essay
Run that by me again?
On the joys of the lay summary
Stephen Curry (9 Nov '08) -
Interview
He's here all week, folks
Science comedian Brian Malow
Ian Brooks (2 Nov '08) -
Fiction
The Quest
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 2
Alison Christy (2 Nov '08) -
Fiction
The Run
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 1
Alison Christy (26 Oct '08) -
Poetry
Signs of life
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark (26 Oct '08) - Quotation
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Art
Slippers
Viktor S. Poór (19 Oct '08) -
Review
But if it were real
The White Road by Tania Hershman
Amy Charles (19 Oct '08) -
Essay
Clinically unproven
On the misuse of science in advertising
Philip Strange (12 Oct '08) -
Essay
Scientists: get off your pedestal and get round the table
'Science and Truth' meets Talkaoke
David Weinkove (12 Oct '08) -
Quotation
Denis R. Alexander on Darwin
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Art
Hooded
Viktor S. Poór (5 Oct '08) -
Fiction
Suit: Part II
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (5 Oct '08) -
Humor
The complaint of Schrödinger's cat
From the LabLit science verse series
John Lowell (28 Sep '08) -
Quotation
Richard Holmes on communication
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Fiction
Suit: Part I
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (28 Sep '08) -
Quotation
Deborah C. Runkle on how animal research ignorance is bliss
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Poetry
Morning
From the LabLit science verse series
rpg (21 Sep '08) -
Humor
Massive particles 'too fat to come out in public'
Unification may require a change in attitude
Kate Oliver (21 Sep '08) -
Essay
Hard cell
What media accounts of real scientists can teach us
Philip Strange (14 Sep '08) -
Poetry
Brinkmanship
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark (14 Sep '08) -
Review
Mrs. Oppenheimer's woes
Doctor Atomic by John Adams
Amy Charles (7 Sep '08) -
Fiction
A quick spin
From the LabLit short story series
Julie Ghosh (7 Sep '08) -
Essay
In a man's world
The feminism, fiction, science and philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Martin Griffiths (31 Aug '08) -
Quotation
Steven Wiley on Big Biology
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Poetry
Paean to mathematics
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts (24 Aug '08) -
Review
Understanding ID
Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller
Ian Brooks (18 Aug '08) -
Essay
Teaching to the enemy
Countering ignorance of evolution in the front line of America's university classrooms
Rob Carey (18 Aug '08) -
Interview
ID busting
Kenneth Miller and the fight for evolution in schools
Ian Brooks (18 Aug '08) -
Poetry
A Top 40 Hit
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark (10 Aug '08) -
Essay
Heat of the moment?
On preventing scientific gaffes
Philip Strange (10 Aug '08) -
Quotation
W. Tad Pfeffer on the dangers of dissent
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Fiction
Lab report
From the LabLit short story series
Dave Haan (3 Aug '08) -
Humor
Conference nightmares
The many faces of scientific presentations
Philip Strange (27 Jul '08) -
Review
Lemons and lunacy
Lab Rats on BBC3
Stephen Curry (27 Jul '08) -
Lab Rats
Big country
An itinerant scientist adapts to Australia
rpg (20 Jul '08) -
Essay
My kids think I'm a boffin
A science teacher stumbles over a stereotype
Alom Shaha (20 Jul '08) -
Quotation
Steven Wiley on the reductionism of biologists
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Review
Reaching for the stars
Kepler by John Banville
Stephen Curry (13 Jul '08) -
Quotation
Ken Caldeira on scientists in the policy arena
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Essay
Sacrifice
When scientists have to kill
Alison Christy (6 Jul '08) -
Interview
The HMS Beagle reborn
Karen James helps bring Darwin's epic voyage to life
Jennifer Rohn (29 Jun '08) -
Quotation
Nature editorial staff on stigmatizing scientific fraudsters
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Essay
The uncompromising lens
On fiction, science and social criticism
Martin Griffiths (22 Jun '08) -
Fiction
In the genes
From the LabLit short story series
Paul Colman (15 Jun '08) -
Review
Where Einstein left off
Final Theory by Mark Alpert
Anna Davour (15 Jun '08) -
Review
What it all means
The Origins of the Universe for Dummies
Ian Brooks (8 Jun '08) -
Fiction
Heat, Part III
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (8 Jun '08) -
Quotation
Peter A. Lawrence on why older scientists shouldn't be turfed out
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Fiction
Heat, Part II
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (1 Jun '08) -
Fiction
Heat, Part I
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (26 May '08) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on science bloggers vs. science journalists
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Fiction
Rhythm method
From the LabLit short fiction series
rpg (18 May '08) -
Lab Rats
The rising price of gas
Why life scientists make the best hypochondriacs
Ian Brooks (18 May '08) -
Lab Rats
The next stage
What do you do when your funding dries up?
Stella Hill (11 May '08) -
Quotation
Richard Gallagher on Plan B for scientists
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Editorial
Science as democracy
How much can, and should, non-scientists shape the research agenda?
Jennifer Rohn (4 May '08) -
Poetry
Spiritus Sancti
From the LabLit science verse series
Derek Adams (4 May '08) -
Review
A surreal soundtrack for science?
The London Snorkelling Team does 'Pataphysics of Sound at London's South Bank Centre
Matt Day (27 Apr '08) -
Quotation
Freya Blekman on informal gender-bias in physics
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Poetry
Escape velocity
From the LabLit science verse series
rpg (20 Apr '08) -
Fiction
The Experiment, Part II
From the LabLit fiction series
João Ramalho-Santos (20 Apr '08) -
Review
Eco-disaster looms
The Doomsday Genie by Frank Ryan
Ian Brooks (13 Apr '08) -
Fiction
The Experiment, Part I
From the LabLit fiction series
João Ramalho-Santos (13 Apr '08) -
Quotation
Nature editorial on hyped-up science
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Review
Until I reach you: a search for self
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Henry Joy McCracken (6 Apr '08) -
Essay
Science at sea
What the novels of Patrick O'Brian can teach us
Stephen Curry (6 Apr '08) -
Essay
The limits of humanity
Are animal/human hybrids truly inhuman?
Bill Hanage (30 Mar '08) -
Fiction
Private Investigations, Part IV
From the LabLit fiction series
rpg (30 Mar '08) -
Essay
Credit where credit's due
Science metaphors are remembered more than their creators
Alom Shaha (30 Mar '08) -
Review
The eyes have it
The Last Enemy on BBC1
Bill Hanage (23 Mar '08) -
Fiction
Private Investigations, Part III
From the LabLit fiction series
rpg (23 Mar '08) -
Fiction
The face of god
From the LabLit short story series
Ian Brooks (16 Mar '08) -
Fiction
Private Investigations, Part II
From the LabLit fiction series
rpg (16 Mar '08) -
Quotation
Steven Wiley on scientific innovation
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Fiction
Private Investigations, Part I
From the LabLit short fiction series
rpg (9 Mar '08) -
Humor
The double flip-flop and other stratagems
Life beyond editorial deadlines
Bernard Thierry (1 Mar '08) -
Fiction
Lab Rats: Scene VI
From the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (1 Mar '08) -
Poetry
Atom
From the LabLit science verse series
Lloyd Graham (24 Feb '08) -
Fiction
Lab Rats: Scene V
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (24 Feb '08) -
Fiction
Lab Rats: Scene IV
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (17 Feb '08) -
Essay
Unstopping the bottle
A self-publishing experiment comes to fruition
Frank Ryan (16 Feb '08) -
Quotation
David Goldston on debating science
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Fiction
Lab Rats: Scene III
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (10 Feb '08) -
Essay
The image that draws the writer
Can science images help fiction writers?
Amy Charles (9 Feb '08) -
Lab Rats
Law and disorder
Legal argumentation gets some scientific scrutiny
Ian Brooks (3 Feb '08) -
Lab Rats
Lab Rats: Scene II
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (3 Feb '08) -
Essay
The big sacrifice
In animal research, uncomfortable questions are unavoidable
Stella Hill (27 Jan '08) -
Fiction
Lab Rats: Scene I
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin (27 Jan '08) -
Quotation
Penelope Duerksen-Hughes on women in science
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Fiction
Limbo
From the LabLit Short Story Series
João Ramalho-Santos (20 Jan '08) -
Interview
Reenacting real scientists on screen
ReGenesis guru Aled Edwards
Jennifer Rohn (20 Jan '08) -
Poetry
O
From the LabLit science verse series
Lloyd Graham (13 Jan '08) -
Essay
Under a Celtic sky
The lesser-known stories of the stars
Martin Griffiths (13 Jan '08) -
Quotation
Elisabeth Pain on lab fraud
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Interview
Science and charity come together in Africa
A chat with epidemiologist Mark Booth
Jennifer Rohn (6 Jan '08) -
Review
Unexpected side-effects
I Am Legend
Jennifer Rohn (6 Jan '08) -
Fiction
The Reunion
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (23 Dec '07) -
Review
Out-of-body experience
A Test of Survival by Marnie Schulenburg
Richard P. Grant (23 Dec '07) -
Quotation
Paul Trotman on science spin
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Humor
Itchy bums and other tales
Inside the mind of a celebrity scientist
Joseph McCrumble (16 Dec '07) -
Fiction
Watching Shadows: Part IV
From the LabLit short story series
Harrison Bae Wein (16 Dec '07) -
Poetry
Cell-mates
From the LabLit science poetry series
Lloyd Graham (9 Dec '07) -
Fiction
Watching Shadows: Part III
From the LabLit short story series
Harrison Bae Wein (9 Dec '07) -
Quotation
Felix E. Schweizer on scientific theories
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Fiction
Watching Shadows: Part II
From the LabLit short story series
Harrison Bae Wein (2 Dec '07) -
Essay
Mouthing off: a cautionary tale
What are famous scientists allowed to say?
Bill Hanage (2 Dec '07) -
Fiction
Watching Shadows: Part I
From the LabLit short story series
Harrison Bae Wein (25 Nov '07) -
Essay
Modifying the meme
A fictional perspective on science
Julie Darbyshire (25 Nov '07) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on MRI for market research
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Fiction
Gestation
By The Sea: Part III, Chapter 8
Henry Gee (18 Nov '07) -
Lab Rats
The scientific schmooze
Opportunity-spotting for PhDs in the market for change
Ian Brooks (11 Nov '07) -
Quotation
Ruthmarie Hicks on starving scientists
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Fiction
Blinded by the rain
By the sea: Part III, Chapter 7
Henry Gee (11 Nov '07) -
Fiction
Escape and exile
The Third Component: Part I, Chapter 3
Alison Christy (9 Nov '07) -
Essay
Badgered to death
Why is the government's own science adviser ignoring the science?
Bill Hanage (4 Nov '07) -
Fiction
A pale simulacrum
By the Sea: Part III, Chapter 6
Henry Gee (4 Nov '07) -
Quotation
David Cronenberg on literary freedom
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Essay
Found in space
The MINDful Play Environment is born
Dene Grigar & Steve Gibson (28 Oct '07) -
Fiction
Just on the edge of sight
By the Sea: Part III, Chapter 5
Henry Gee (28 Oct '07) -
Editorial
A day in the life: scientists meet writers
Will this latest forum inspire more lab lit fiction?
Jennifer Rohn (21 Oct '07) -
Essay
It's life, Jim, but as we know it
Deconstructing Craig Venter's latest creation
Bill Hanage (21 Oct '07) -
Fiction
Stranded on the shore
By the Sea: Part III, Chapter 4
Henry Gee (21 Oct '07) -
Quotation
Pamela Silver on academic biologists
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Fiction
The scarlet in her mind
By The Sea: Part III, Chapter 3
Henry Gee (14 Oct '07) -
Humor
Undergrad invasion
Another academic year, another round of giveaways
Rivka Isaacson (7 Oct '07) -
Fiction
Unearthing the bottomless
By The Sea: Part III, Chapter 2
Henry Gee (7 Oct '07) -
Essay
Flights of fancy - Part III
The birth of the British Interplanetary Society
Martin Griffiths (30 Sep '07) -
Essay
A pox on virtual plagues
'Corrupted Blood': valuable scientific tool, or a waste of journal space?
Bill Hanage (30 Sep '07) -
Fiction
Whisper of the surf
By The Sea: Part III, Chapter 1
Henry Gee (30 Sep '07) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on bogus fish oil trials
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Review
Still uneasy bedfellows?
Science meets Poet in the City
Jennifer Rohn (23 Sep '07) -
Essay
Flights of fancy - Part II
Rocket pioneers lead the way
Martin Griffiths (23 Sep '07) -
Lab Rats
Forgetting to breathe
Life at the Mauna Kea observatory
David Clements (16 Sep '07) -
Essay
Flights of fancy - Part I
How early novelists inspired spaceflight
Martin Griffiths (16 Sep '07) -
Humor
Selling the dream
How biotech ads stimulate scientist's pleasure centers
Thomas Robey (9 Sep '07) -
Fiction
A metaphor for death
By the Sea: Part II, Chapter 8
Henry Gee (9 Sep '07) -
Quotation
Paul Browne on scientists debating online
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Fiction
The Shock and Vibration Society
From the LabLit short story series
Steve Bills (2 Sep '07) -
Fiction
Saving the mermaid
By the Sea: Part II, Chapter 7
Henry Gee (2 Sep '07) -
Essay
The fertile incubator
On growing up at Cold Spring Harbor
David Bryson (26 Aug '07) -
Quotation
Andrew Rosenberg on scientists as policy facilitators
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Fiction
The voyage of the Spaniel
By the Sea: Part II, Chapter 6
Henry Gee (26 Aug '07) -
Lab Rats
A sinister reality
A left-hander braves the right-handed lab
Stella Hill (19 Aug '07) -
Fiction
The dead below
By The Sea: Part II, Chapter 5
Henry Gee (19 Aug '07) -
Fiction
An exile of secrets
By the Sea: Part II, Chapter 4
Henry Gee (12 Aug '07) -
Quotation
Marina Hyde on Stephen Hawking
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Profile
Rosalind Franklin's artistic legacy
Artists Wyllie and O Hagan strive to rekindle a lost legend
Dawn Powell (5 Aug '07) -
Essay
Alien Worlds hit closer to home
An innovative project uses astronomy to reconnect faltering students with the wider universe
Allan Trow and Catherine Tryfona (5 Aug '07) -
Fiction
The madman in the fog
By The Sea: Part II, Chapter 3
Henry Gee (5 Aug '07) -
Quotation
Ursula K. Le Guin on genre
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Lab Rats
Can't stand the heat?
On the kinship of scientists and chefs
Ian Brooks (29 Jul '07) -
Fiction
Two kinds of dark
By The Sea: Part II, Chapter 2
Henry Gee (29 Jul '07) -
Quotation
Philip Ball on Hollywood science
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Fiction
A brief history of Tim
From the LabLit short story series
Simon Lord (15 Jul '07) -
Fiction
Like bindweed in the garden
By The Sea: Part II, Chapter 1
Henry Gee (15 Jul '07) -
Competition
Stripping Off the White Coat
LabLit and SciCult challenge designers to modernize the humble lab uniform -
Fiction
Tribute: Part 2
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (8 Jul '07) -
Essay
Super-bugged
Why won't politicians listen to scientists?
Bill Hanage (8 Jul '07) -
Fiction
Easy access to liquor
By The Sea - Part I, Chapter 8
Henry Gee (7 Jul '07) -
Fiction
Tribute: Part 1
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (1 Jul '07) -
Quotation
Gaia Vince on science pop songs
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Fiction
Speaking ill of the dead
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 7
Henry Gee (1 Jul '07) -
Humor
Losing the flip-flops
When lab safety competes with fashion
Rivka Isaacson (24 Jun '07) -
Fiction
To what's submerged
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 6
Henry Gee (24 Jun '07) -
Fiction
The perennial survivor
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 5
Henry Gee (17 Jun '07) -
Quotation
Nature on poor peer-reviewing skills
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Interview
King of the Sun
Stuart Clark on science communication and solar storms
Jennifer Rohn (17 Jun '07) -
Essay
The Sigil lands in iFiction
How users are expanding the versatility of a new online fiction distribution site
Andrew Burt (10 Jun '07) -
Fiction
Collaboration
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos (10 Jun '07) -
Fiction
Pickled Lily
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 4
Henry Gee (10 Jun '07) -
Quotation
Chris Mooney on scientific scepticism
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Humor
The news from Switzerland is very bad
(Or: where did that Higgs particle get to?)
John Lowell (3 Jun '07) -
Fiction
Princess of death
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 3
Henry Gee (3 Jun '07) -
Poetry
Half of me
An excerpt from Looking Up
Anne Osbourn (27 May '07) -
Humor
Nerdy verse
Poems for my scientific mind
Rivka Isaacson (27 May '07) -
Fiction
The night intruder
By the Sea: Part I, Chapter 2
Henry Gee (27 May '07) -
Art
Lab Laocoon
A science sculpture dedicated to lonely post-docs everywhere
Kersten Hall (20 May '07) -
Lab Rats
Time after time
When the experiments come first
Stella Hill (20 May '07) -
Fiction
Corridor of shadows
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 1
Henry Gee (20 May '07) -
Quotation
Michael Davidson on knowing how things work
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Poetry
Sentimental imaging
From the LabLit science poetry series
Rivka Isaacson (13 May '07) -
Essay
Belief is not enough
On preaching to the unconverted
Henry Schreiber (13 May '07) -
Lab Rats
The gap beneath your feet
Embracing a life in flux
Ian Brooks (6 May '07) -
Essay
Reinventing the science paper
How impenetrable writing harms science
Linda Cooper (6 May '07) -
Fiction
The crash
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 9
Laura Otis (6 May '07) -
Quotation
Adam Ferguson on PhDs in the real world
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Fiction
Going down easy
From the LabLit short story series
Terry Sanville (29 Apr '07) -
Fiction
Mainlining level 3
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 8
Laura Otis (29 Apr '07) -
Art
Work pressure, by Adam York Gregory
Adam York Gregory (22 Apr '07) -
Review
Dueling meteorologists
Superstorm on BBC1
Jennifer Rohn (22 Apr '07) -
Essay
Muses of science and war
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut
Henry Joy McCracken (22 Apr '07) -
Fiction
Pulling the trigger
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 7
Laura Otis (22 Apr '07) -
Quotation
Fabian Asker on literary deconstruction
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Fiction
Danger outside the door
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 6
Laura Otis (15 Apr '07) -
Review
The time is now
Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
Andy Sawyer (15 Apr '07) -
Art
Ulterior motives, by Adam York Gregory
Adam York Gregory (9 Apr '07) -
Fiction
Neuro Death Squad
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 5
Laura Otis (8 Apr '07) -
Quotation
Sean Morrison on science publication
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Review
Solar flair
Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle
Stephen Battersby (1 Apr '07) -
Essay
Dragon rising
A quest towards self-publication: entry 12
Frank Ryan (1 Apr '07) -
Fiction
Potential difference, opposite charges
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 4
Laura Otis (1 Apr '07) -
Editorial
MyLab
Nature Network London launches
Jennifer Rohn (25 Mar '07) -
Essay
Malignant meat
One cancer scare too far - at least in humans
Bill Hanage (25 Mar '07) -
Essay
The blade of destiny
A quest towards self-publication: entry 11
Frank Ryan (25 Mar '07) -
Fiction
Intellectual theft
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 3
Laura Otis (25 Mar '07) -
Essay
It’s all there...in my DNA
Playing fast and loose with genetic truth
Paul Andrews (17 Mar '07) -
Fiction
Mouthing off
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 2
Laura Otis (17 Mar '07) -
Quotation
Hugh Cormican on physicists
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Essay
Dr. Bacteria
The strange science fiction of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Laura Otis (11 Mar '07) -
Essay
Mission: Prometheus
A quest towards self-publication: entry 10
Frank Ryan (11 Mar '07) -
Fiction
The F-word
The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 1
Laura Otis (11 Mar '07) -
Essay
Countdown
A quest towards self-publication: entry 9
Frank Ryan (4 Mar '07) -
Review
Extinction coefficient
A Flock of Dodos
Bill Hanage (4 Mar '07) -
Fiction
Mirror images
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 7
Laura Otis (4 Mar '07) -
Interview
The Newtonian Legacy emerges
Physicist Nick Evans uses fiction to bring his world to life
Jennifer Rohn (4 Mar '07) -
Quotation
Mike Hulme on UK press scaremongering
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Essay
First quest
A quest towards self-publication: entry 8
Frank Ryan (25 Feb '07) -
Fiction
The mask biology wears
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 6
Laura Otis (25 Feb '07) -
Fiction
Experimenting into life
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 5
Laura Otis (18 Feb '07) -
Essay
A book of surprises
A quest towards self-publication: entry 7
Frank Ryan (18 Feb '07) -
LabLit Tip
Four Scientists in Search of an Author
A SciTalk fiction event at the Oxford Literary Festival
Jennifer Rohn (18 Feb '07) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on science journalists
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Fiction
Frying his fish
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 4
Laura Otis (11 Feb '07) -
Lab Rats
Blank slate
An episode of grant-induced writer's block
Ian Brooks (11 Feb '07) -
Fiction
What makes you get up in the morning
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 3
Laura Otis (4 Feb '07) -
Review
Only human
Novelist Robert J. Sawyer puts real scientists on the page
Gregg Linden (4 Feb '07) -
Interview
The day after today
Interview with novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Jennifer Rohn (4 Feb '07) -
Quotation
Ari Handel on leaving science
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Review
A touching display
Materials Library at Tate Modern
Jennifer Rohn (28 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Ovogenesis
From the LabLit short story series
Jeremy Garwood (28 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Signal and noise
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 2
Laura Otis (28 Jan '07) -
Lab Rats
Total submission
Do you have what it takes to get your scientific article out there?
Keren Boren (21 Jan '07) -
Essay
Meet my dragon!
A quest towards self-publication: entry 6
Frank Ryan (21 Jan '07) -
Fiction
A literary voyeur
The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 1
Laura Otis (20 Jan '07) -
Essay
Storms and skirmishes
A quest towards self-publication: entry 5
Frank Ryan (14 Jan '07) -
Essay
New Horizons
The web offers hope for those disappointed with science on TV
Alom Shaha (14 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Conquests as a function of time
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 9
Laura Otis (14 Jan '07) -
Quotation
Nate Lo on the art of naming a new bacterium
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Lab Rats
Who says science is silent?
Decoding the lab soundscape
Amy Unsworth (7 Jan '07) -
Essay
The Dragon Liberator
A quest towards self-publication: entry 4
Frank Ryan (7 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Visit from the top quark
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 8
Laura Otis (7 Jan '07) -
Poetry
Beginnings
Anne Osbourn (1 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Virtual restraining order
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 7
Laura Otis (1 Jan '07) -
Fiction
Hell hath no fury
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 6
Laura Otis (23 Dec '06) -
Essay
Joining the Pod Squad
Is anybody out there?
Kat Arney (23 Dec '06) -
Review
Balanced equations
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Atalier Brancusi, Paris
Henry Joy McCracken (23 Dec '06) -
Quotation
An anonymous researcher on animal experimentation
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Interview
Pretty in Ink
The brains behind Inkling, a new science webzine
Jennifer Rohn (17 Dec '06) -
Essay
There's gold in that there bullshit
A quest towards self-publication: entry 3
Frank Ryan (17 Dec '06) -
Fiction
Bunny-boiling 101
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 5
Laura Otis (17 Dec '06) -
Review
Panspermia and all that jizz
On BBC Horizon's continuing downward spiral
Paul Andrews (10 Dec '06) -
Essay
The goddess in my dreams
A quest towards self-publication: entry 2
Frank Ryan (10 Dec '06) -
Fiction
A flea on the surface of his life
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 4
Laura Otis (10 Dec '06) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on the Daily Mail
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Review
The quiet revolution
'Battle of Ideas' at the RCA
Jennifer Rohn (3 Dec '06) -
Essay
The Dragon in the Stone
On the quest to publish a science thriller
Frank Ryan (3 Dec '06) -
Fiction
Sperm viruses and the meaning of life
The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 3
Laura Otis (3 Dec '06) -
Fiction
Dangerous liaisons and the diagonal sweep
The Tantalus Letters: Part 1, Chapter 2
Laura Otis (26 Nov '06) -
Humor
Boot force
A scientific approach to car maintenance
Ian Brooks (26 Nov '06) -
Quotation
Patrick Marsh on the origins of life
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Essay
Parallel cell universe
How eukaryotic cells should work - but apparently don’t
Carter Bancroft (19 Nov '06) -
Fiction
Sex and brain-zapping
The Tantalus Letters: Part 1, Chapter 1
Laura Otis (19 Nov '06) -
Review
Silencing the music of the spheres
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Jennifer Rohn (12 Nov '06) -
Fiction
Breaking and entering
The Tantalus Letters: Prologue
Laura Otis (12 Nov '06) -
Review
Them's fightin' words
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Bill Hanage (5 Nov '06) -
Lab Rats
Chair invasion
How even lab furniture can make your day
Amy Unsworth (5 Nov '06) -
Quotation
Simon Jenkins on Britain's science curriculum
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Review
Enduring love
'The Best Science Book Ever' at the RI
Jennifer Rohn (22 Oct '06) -
Lab Rats
The untold story
What doesn't make the cut in scientific papers
Matthew Hall (21 Oct '06) -
Interview
Queen of the cocktails
Physics served up with style -
Quotation
Richard Gallagher on George Bush
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Fiction
The Toad
From the LabLit short story series
Stefani Nellen (14 Oct '06) -
LabLit Tip
Science's ultimate page-turners
In search of the best science book ever -
Quotation
Harry Kroto on chemistry education
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Lab Rats
Taming your inner geek
'That Guy' on the conference circuit
Ian Brooks (7 Oct '06) -
Fiction
Making Faces
Highlights from the Subtle Science shortlist
Cheryl Moskowitz (7 Oct '06) -
Essay
Steve Irwin’s big sting and other tales
Beyond science pornography
Bill Hanage (30 Sep '06) -
Humor
The Quasi-Kuhnian shift:
An interview with Dr. Quintin Huber, The Leprechaun of Science
Tal Yarkoni (30 Sep '06) -
Quotation
George Monbiot on climate-change denial
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Essay
The Glider
A childhood reminscence
Martin Raff (24 Sep '06) -
Essay
A culture of curiosity
What modern readers can learn from George Eliot
Mark Haw (24 Sep '06) -
LabLit Tip
Kindred Links
A growing list of relevant websites recommended by the Editor -
Humor
The tree of strife
Post-docs deserve their own species designation
Helen Pickersgill (17 Sep '06) -
Fiction
Baiting Michael
Highlights from the 'Subtle Science' shortlist
Emily Steel (17 Sep '06) -
Quotation
Elizabeth Spelke on gender differences in science aptitude
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Poetry
Spinning
Anne Osbourn (10 Sep '06) -
Profile
The art of healing
Nancy Morgan influences the environment of cancer therapy
Ian Brooks (10 Sep '06) -
Essay
Remembering Max
The Phage Group honors its own
Jennifer Rohn (31 Aug '06) -
Fiction
Back to the Past
Episode Nine of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (31 Aug '06) -
Profile
Complicated facts
Philip Ball talks about dissecting the science and philosphy of the past
Jennifer Rohn (22 Aug '06) -
Essay
Undead ringer
What can nuking zombies tell us about infectious disease control?
Bill Hanage (21 Aug '06) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on clinical trials
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Lab Rats
Quest for the magic pipette
How timely intervention can make all the difference in science careers (13 Aug '06) -
Quotation
Jeanette Winterson on Stephen Hawking
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Essay
News from an unknown universe
Inspecting the facts in science fiction
Sally-Ann Spencer (5 Aug '06) -
Review
Into the lion's den
Steve Fuller at 'Skeptics In The Pub'
Bill Hanage (30 Jul '06) -
Fiction
The Coli
Episode Eight of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (30 Jul '06) -
Poetry
Illusions
Anne Osbourn (22 Jul '06) -
Lab Rats
Subject hates herself and engages in self-destructive behavior
On genes, behavior and knowing thyself
Suzanne Nguyen (22 Jul '06) -
Quotation
Tom Pringle on faked Brainiac science
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Humor
Questionable judgement?
Even Newton had to please the peer reviewers
Anne Osbourn (12 Jul '06) -
Fiction
The A-Maize-ing Maize Man: A Tale From The Corny Side
Episode Seven of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (12 Jul '06) -
Essay
Scientific spaces, scientific thinking
Does the size of your lab bench matter?
Jennifer Rohn (8 Jul '06) -
Interview
The natural history of a plant scientist
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Quotation
Benjamin Heisenberg on the Zeitgeist
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Review
Finding the face of science communication
FameLab Final at Cheltenham
Jennifer Rohn (28 Jun '06) -
Quotation
Faith Wilding on kids in labs
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Poetry
Power
Jo Bell (24 Jun '06) -
Review
Camp Energy at Cheltenham
The Survival of the Physicists
Jennifer Rohn (24 Jun '06) -
Fiction
Selected Excerpts from the Lab Notebook of Jane Baxman
Episode Six of Blnded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (18 Jun '06) -
Lab Rats
The road not taken
When a Ph.D. proves elusive
Christina Rush (15 Jun '06) -
Quotation
James Lovelock on nuclear waste
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Poetry
Threads
Anne Osbourn (11 Jun '06) -
Fiction
Apoptosis Now
Episode Five of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (4 Jun '06) -
Essay
Blogging about nukes
A new virtual debate from the Institute of Physics
Kat Arney (4 Jun '06) -
Review
Feynman checks in
Clever Dick by Crispin Whittell
Jennifer Rohn (31 May '06) -
Quotation
Ben Goldacre on the placebo effect
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Lab Rats
You call this a job?
On the nowhere land of postdoctoral existence
Ian Brooks (28 May '06) -
Quotation
Nick Ross on inspiring science writing
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Essay
Once more, with comprehension
The more sinister side of jargon
Bill Hanage (21 May '06) -
Fiction
Beauty and the Yeast
Episode Four of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (21 May '06) -
Essay
The voice of the scientist
Researchers as novelists and characters
Clare Dudman (14 May '06) -
Editorial
Dumbed down
On the downplaying of science in the newspapers
Jennifer Rohn (14 May '06) -
Quotation
Tshaka Cunningham on postdoctoral salaries
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Fiction
Sci Idol
Tania Hershman (8 May '06) -
Quotation
Karla Neugebauer on women in science
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Lab Rats
Deal with it
To a beginner, the languages of poker and science are equally inscrutable
Ian Brooks (1 May '06) -
Lab Rats
Crossing over to the Dark Side
On the transition from scientist to editor
Charvy Narain (1 May '06) -
Fiction
Needful Stains
Episode Three of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (1 May '06) -
Essay
Bring back the nightmares
On the role of science communication and literature in nuclear deterrence
Alom Shaha (27 Apr '06) -
Profile
Beyond laboratory conditions
Daniel Glaser moves on
Jennifer Rohn (24 Apr '06) -
Fiction
The Coomassie Blue Kid and the Plasmid of Doom
Episode Two of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (19 Apr '06) -
Quotation
The Rev. George V. Coyne on the Universe
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Lab Rats
Playing with Science
On the psychology of laboratory games
Milan de Vries (18 Apr '06) -
Fiction
The Coomassie Blue Kid
Episode One of Blinded By Science
Harrison Bae Wein (9 Apr '06) -
Essay
Henrik Ibsen and public science policy
Taking STEPS to enhance PEST
Nicholas Russell (9 Apr '06) -
LabLit Tip
Transforming raw data into art
The enSight Gallery, Edinburgh -
Quotation
Ian McEwan on science writers
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Profile
Sequencing, sushi and sang-froid
One man's account of the fly genome project
Jennifer Rohn (2 Apr '06) -
Quotation
George Lewith on the BBC's documentary Alternative Medicine
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Lab Rats
Working hand to mouth
On the hidden dangers of lab life
Ian Brooks (26 Mar '06) -
Quotation
David Magnus on when human life begins
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LabLit Tip
Subtle Science Short Story Challenge
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Profile
Supercollision
How artist Emma Hart braved the physics at CERN, and what physicist Rolf Landua made of it all
Jennifer Rohn (19 Mar '06) -
Essay
Science through the looking glass of literature
What the textbooks can't teach us
Frans Saris (12 Mar '06) -
Quotation
Iain Simpson on scientists vs. anti-vivisectionists
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Lab Rats
How to become a biologist
On a work in progress
Bora Zivkovic (3 Mar '06) -
Review
Keeping it in the family
Taboos (When Harriet Met Sally) by Carl Djerassi
Jennifer Rohn (26 Feb '06) -
Lab Rats
The scientific chat-up
How to lure in the ladies with your PhD (it's got to be good for something)
Ian Brooks (26 Feb '06) -
Quotation
Rush Holt on non-scientists
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Review
Faking it: Capgras Syndrome at NEUROfest
Imposters by Justin Warner
Charvy Narain (18 Feb '06) -
Essay
Combining fiction and science
My hot ticket to publication (not)
James Aach (18 Feb '06) -
Essay
Thomas Hardy, Richard Proctor and the dialogue of the deaf
How scientists evolved to be resistant to public accountability
Nicholas Russell (18 Feb '06) -
Review
Painting with numbers
Proof doesn’t add up but Justin Mullins balances the equation
Alom Shaha (14 Feb '06) -
Quotation
Peter Bradshaw on Proof
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Review
Order, chaos and landscape gardening
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Janet Wilson (13 Feb '06) -
Quotation
The Independent on the death of a planetarium
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Editorial
The Waterstone’s Challenge, Part Two
Can consumers be enticed to buy ‘lab lit’ fiction? All is revealed!
Jennifer Rohn (5 Feb '06) -
Data Point
Who believes in evolution?
Jennifer Rohn (30 Jan '06) -
Quotation
Lord Martin Rees on evolution
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Essay
The fledgling professional
A scientific career and mountaineering have a lot in common
Terry Ord (30 Jan '06) -
Essay
The Lab Reporters
What it is that ‘science communicators’ do?
Alom Shaha (18 Jan '06) -
Humor
Logic, labs and lucky pants
Science may be rational, but scientists certainly aren’t
Kat Arney (18 Jan '06) -
Essay
An unkind literature
Why has the novel shortchanged science?
Lewis Wolpert (18 Jan '06) -
Quotation
Mark MacDiarmid on negative results
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Review
Snail tale
Seaside Pleasures by Ann Lingard
Jennifer Rohn (15 Jan '06) -
Quotation
Madeleine Bunting on Richard Dawkins's viewpoint
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Essay
The Dorkbots are among us
On an underground cultural phenomenon
Nick Woolley (10 Jan '06) -
Quotation
Cho Jae-hyon on South Korea's stem cell scandal
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Profile
Genes on film
Michael Hayden’s research comes to life in The Score
Jennifer Rohn (21 Dec '05) -
Lab Rats
Developing scientists
Getting from point A to B in the lab
Helen Pickersgill (21 Dec '05) -
Quotation
Simon Singh on physicists
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Essay
Beyond science fiction
Writers experimenting with reality need to be more daring
Bill Hanage (2 Dec '05) -
Review
Terror, triple helices and TV dinners
Threshold on Sky One
Jennifer Rohn (18 Nov '05) -
Quotation
Jim Watson on women scientists
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Interview
It's good to SciTalk
Ann Lackie on her life, her novels and a new organization that brings writers and scientists together -
Quotation
The FT Magazine on scientists in film
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Profile
Bold and calculating
Dr. Jonathan Farley's bid to teach Hollywood about math
Jennifer Rohn (22 Oct '05) -
Editorial
The White Scourge
Are iPods changing lab culture?
Jennifer Rohn (22 Oct '05) -
Data Point
How confident are science teachers?
Jennifer Rohn (25 Sep '05) -
Quotation
Alan Sugar on scientists
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Essay
Eat more, exercise less and lose weight – honest!
Why TV scientists can't be trusted
Helen Pickersgill (25 Sep '05) -
Editorial
Prove it
A rant on the evolution of emotions reveals core misconceptions
Jennifer Rohn (25 Sep '05) -
Quotation
Dr. Henry Gee on fantasy and science
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Humor
Breaking News:
Cosmologists Take up New Techniques from Evolutionary Biology
John Lowell (4 Sep '05) -
Review
Is there a scientist in the House?
House, MD on Fox (4 Sep '05) -
Interview
Bad cop
On the joys of science quackery: an interview with the Guardian's Ben Goldacre -
Review
Playing with fire
Dr Bunhead’s Recipes for Disaster at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Jennifer Rohn (17 Aug '05) -
Review
Past tense
How To Build A Time Machine by Greg McLaren (dir. Steve Brownlie) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Matt Day (17 Aug '05) -
Lab Rats
Tough scrutiny
My day under the microscope
Andrew Wood (7 Aug '05) -
Competition
In search of the best laboratory Haiku!
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Quotation
Richard Gallagher on the poor image of scientists
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Data Point
How cool are scientists?
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Essay
Strange bedfellows
Superimposing art and science as kindred concepts may be fashionable, but is it justified?
Lewis Wolpert (18 Jul '05) -
Interview
Foam Fatale
On bubbles, robots, condensed matter, doughnuts, fan mail, art and life: an interview with Sidney Perkowitz -
Essay
The science that people swallow
Just how 'friendly' are those bacteria, anyway?
Bill Hanage (3 Jul '05) -
LabLit Tip
'Genes Talking' at the ICA, London UK
An interactive molecular biology lab open to the public -
Quotation
Professor Sir Antony R. Hoare on selfless scientific strategies
Jennifer Rohn (5 Jun '05) -
Lab Rats
My bizarre lab life
From the sublime to the ridiculous (and the downright mundane)
Helen Pickersgill (5 Jun '05) -
Essay
Do artists play sports?
The ‘science-art divide’ is a myth of our own making
Andrew Charalambous (2 Jun '05) -
Quotation
Tim Lott on science novelists
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Interview
Painting for life
Scientist-turned-artist Lizzie Burns explores the world in a new way -
Editorial
The Waterstone's Challenge
LabLit asked a major bookseller to consider profiling "Lab Lit" novels as an experiment in selling a new "genre" – and they were up for it!
Jennifer Rohn (24 Apr '05) -
Review
Science and Art go head-to-head
Review of Phallacy by Carl Djerassi
Jennifer Rohn (23 Apr '05) -
Humor
What not to touch
The Lab Hag engages with her inner child
Frankie P. (19 Apr '05) -
Lab Rats
The PI tells you why
(and you've heard it all before...)
The Eternal Postdoc (19 Apr '05) -
Quotation
Zlatko Tesanovic on string theory
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Data Point
Do we feel informed about science?
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Humor
The Science Detectives
Another fine script from the makers of Mrs. Fermat’s Lost Theorem and Darwin’s Dustbin: The Shocking Secrets His Household Rubbish Revealed
John Lowell (31 Mar '05) -
Humor
Advice from a Science Parent
It’s not just what you read, but when you read it
Mark Miodownik (31 Mar '05) -
Essay
Intelligent Design revamps an old familiar tune
But do people really believe we’ll take it as science?
Bill Hanage (31 Mar '05) -
Profile
Science-in-theatre: a chemist attempts to translate
With a new play opening in London, Carl Djerassi continues to put science center-stage
Jennifer Rohn (30 Mar '05) -
Art
"The Scope Guy" by Nick Woolley
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Data Point
Who's afraid of science?
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Quotation
Lord May on science TV dramas
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Humor
"It has not escaped our notice..."
In which readers are invited to nominate their favorite one-liner from a scientific paper -
Review
A bit too much information
Review of The Bourbaki Gambit by Carl Djerassi
Erica Cannon (7 Mar '05) -
Humor
Some of my best friends are scientists
True confessions of a lab hag
Frankie P. (7 Mar '05) -
Lab Rats
Researcher on ice
A graduate student enjoys a change of scenery
Kate Hendry (7 Mar '05) -
Interview
He's got brains on call
Dominick McIntyre likes to get inside his friends' heads -
Humor
Underneath my lab coat, I'm naked!
One woman argues that labs should be sexed up
Kat Arney (7 Mar '05) -
Humor
TV listings: this week on Supersoap!
The continuing saga of our feckless physicists...
John Lowell (7 Mar '05) -
Interview
Novels under the microscope
Chris McCabe, scientist and author, applies the scientific method to literature -
Essay
What is Lab Lit (the genre)?
Boffins are so last century - let's see some real scientists for a change
Jennifer Rohn (7 Mar '05) -
Profile
It's all in the delivery
Effective science television hinges on striking a fine balance between truth and entertainment
Jennifer Rohn (7 Mar '05) -
Editorial
Welcome to LabLit.com
Our lights are now on!
Jennifer Rohn (7 Mar '05) -
Natural Habitat
Natural Habitat
Fridge of the week