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• Podcast

  Happy birthday

  Kirk, Kepler and killing your darlings
  LabLit.com 6 March 2015
• Podcast

  2001: A Red Dwarf

  Space, sanitoria and sexy neuroscientists
  LabLit.com 15 October 2014
• Podcast

  Unstable elements

  Bells, breakthroughs and the Big Bang
  LabLit.com 24 December 2013
• Podcast

  Longhand

  Cults, crossings-out & conversations
  LabLit.com 26 May 2013
• Podcast

  Candlelit

  Private professors, power cuts and new presses
  LabLit.com 15 November 2012
• Competition

  The world of my experiment

  Lab Snaps: the winner
  LabLit.com 5 June 2012
• Competition

  London lab snaps

  Submit your geeky photos
  LabLit.com 21 May 2012
• Podcast

  Upright

  Films, frolics and flash fiction
  LabLit.com 17 May 2012
• Podcast

  Heliocentric

  Burns, baby booms, and Beyonce’s bum
  LabLit.com 20 January 2012
• Podcast

  Monkey business

  Boobs, Brazil and Berlin
  LabLit.com 22 September 2011
• Podcast

  The play's the thing

  A wealth of theatre, women scientists and wonderfully improbable research
  LabLit.com 31 March 2011
• Podcast

  Geek Central

  Blogging, Bora and belly-button flora
  LabLit.com 28 January 2011
• Podcast

  Common cold

  Geeks, germs and gratuitous library sex
  LabLit.com 28 December 2010
• Podcast

  Meet space

  Ovulation, revolution and online collusion
  LabLit.com 16 September 2010
• Podcast

  Odd couples

  Astronomers, anti-scientists and antiquarians
  LabLit.com 20 July 2010
• Podcast

  Game theory

  Festivals, frisky yeast and a fiction renaissance
  LabLit.com 28 May 2010
• Podcast

  Corpuscular

  Literary vibes, voluptuousness and vindaloo
  LabLit.com 30 March 2010
• Podcast

  Gee-Spot

  Ants, Avatar and annoying celebrity novelists
  LabLit.com 28 January 2010
• Podcast

  Elementary

  Flirtation, foxes and fictional chemistry
  LabLit.com 3 January 2010
• Podcast

  Call me Ishmael

  Particle colliders, purple prose and pub chats
  LabLit.com 6 December 2009
• Podcast

  Nobel endeavors

  Book prizes, bar codes and Bertrand Russell
  LabLit.com 11 October 2009
• Podcast

  Fossil-fueled

  Subtle Technologies, Star Spider, strange science and a surfeit of science stories
  LabLit.com 23 September 2009
• Podcast

  Paper round

  Comics, calculators and a time-traveling Galileo
  LabLit.com 6 September 2009
• Podcast

  Meta science blogging, London style

  Bootleg video of the Fringe Frivolous Unconference, 21 August 2009
  LabLit.com 26 August 2009
• Podcast

  Polymath

  Explosions, evolutionary compositions and yet more equations
  LabLit.com 26 July 2009
• Podcast

  Textbook fashion

  Science curricula, sex with robots and other stories
  LabLit.com 21 June 2009
• Podcast

  Eponymously yours

  Lichen, libel and lab hijinks
  LabLit.com 7 June 2009
• Podcast

  Funny bones

  Meet science comedian Brian Malow
  LabLit.com 27 May 2009
• Podcast

  Under the microscope

  Fiction Lab, London's geeky book club
  LabLit.com 19 April 2009

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    New science poetry from Peter Roberts

  • Interviews

    New short fiction from João Ramalho-Santos

  • The science of coincidence

    New short fiction from Gavin Milnthorpe

  • Life reimagined, by Alex and Noah

    The next story in our "Young Authors" series!

  • The sample

    Our next exciting episode of "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"!

• Past highlights

  • Needs must: The great pipette tip caper

    New humorous fiction from Julia RIchards

  • After the Delhi rapes, a female scientist from India speaks out

    Professional women in India have to work in fear - when will it change?

  • Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey

    Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging

  • A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni

    Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series

  • The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica

    Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission

  • Stardom

    Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The day after today

    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

• In the news

  • "LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes.' "

    LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR

  • "These summer reads have scientists at their heart"

    Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

  • "It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"

    Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast

  • Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure

    Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

  • Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes

    Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics

  • Scientists in space - and beyond

    Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4

  • The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality

    Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature

  • Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease

    Piece in Physics World

  • "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"

    NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof

  • "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."

    Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today

  • "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows

    The New York Times likes LabLit.com

  • 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like

    The New Scientist talks to Jenny

  • Light reading

    LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition

  • Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"

    51stories.com recommends Lablit.com

  • "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"

    BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us

  • "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"

    - The Boston Globe gets into science novels

  • "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"

    Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News

  • "Science is a great topic for a novel"

    Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times

  • A lab lit renaissance?

    Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise

  • "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"

    Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels

  • "Science is only one side of the story"

    Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news

  • "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"

    Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com

  • "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"

    Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com

  • "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"

    Cell

  • "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"

    Chemistry World on LabLit.com

  • What is LabLit.com?

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

  • "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

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist

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