LabLit.com - the culture of science in fiction & fact

Coming soon...
- Mrs Oppenheimer's woes
  
  Amy Charles reviews the opera Dr. Atomic
- Lemons and lightbulbs
  
  BBC2's new science sit-com 'Lab Rats' reviewed
- The ID busters
  
  Ian Brooks interviews Kenneth Miller and reviews his latest book Only A Theory
- Teaching to the enemy
  
  Robert Carey on genetics education in America's rural heartland
- Art and architecture
  
  Oxford Biochemistry tries something different
- Fish out of water
  
  On artist-in-
  residency at London's Science Museum
- ... and more!
Past highlights
- 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
- Unkind literature
  
  Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
- The Glider
  
  Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
- Marketing lab lit fiction
  
  An experiment with Waterstone's
- Sex in the lab
  
  What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

Featured fact

The HMS Beagle reborn

Interview: with Karen James

The big impression that The Voyage of the Beagle left on me is that science really is high adventure

Featured fiction

In the genes

Fiction: Paul Colman

He seems to be bordering on the obsessive. I think the personal nature of the project may be clouding his judgment

NEW! My kids think I'm a boffin

Scientists stereotypes amongst schoolkids

Essay: Alom Shaha

NEW! Big country

One itinerant scientist's story

Lab Rats: rpg

Biological systems are simply too complex, and we will end up knowing a lot about trees and being clueless about the forest

Steven Wiley writing in The Scientist

The next stage

What lies at the end of funding?

Lab Rats: Stella Hill

Rhythm method

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: rpg

The rising price of gas

On scientists and hypochondria

Lab Rats: Ian Brooks

Democracy rules

Who should set the research agenda

Editorial: Jennifer Rohn

Spiritus sancti

From the LabLit science verse series

Poetry: Derek Adams

[As] scientists, we have ability and the right, if not the obligation, to speak as concerned and informed citizens. But it is useful to keep those roles separate. We have no particular priestly role where we have greater weight than anyone else...

NEW! Ken Caldeira as quoted in Nature

Reaching for the stars

Kepler by John Banville

Review: Stephen Curry

Sacrifice

When scientists have to kill

Essay: Alison Christy

The uncompromising lens

Fiction, science and social criticism

Essay: Martin Griffiths

Where Einstein left off

Final Theory by Mark Alpert

Review: Anna Davour

Heat

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: João Ramalho-Santos

What it all means

Origins of the Universe for Dummies

Review: Ian Brooks

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