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Essay: Philip Strange on an architectural love affair

You might expect considerable interaction, but cohabitation does not necessarily mean cross fertilization
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NEW! Chapter 36: Anna

Fiction: The Third Component by Alison Christy

She tells him that she is a scientist, and never 'just knows' anything. There are too many decisions, not enough control

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David A. Parra champions lost knowledge

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Science curricula and sex with robots

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When we read a published scientific paper, it often feels like the last word, even though there is often a gripping story behind and ahead of it

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Competition in science

Is it really such a bad thing?

Essay: Alexis Barr
Bringing science down to earth

Dark Skies Wales shines a light

Essay: Allan Trow
In need of laughs

The sit-com Better Off Ted

Review: Åsa Karlström
Scientists: heroes or villains?

What the Barbie Drug teaches us

Essay: Philip Strange
The competition for immortality

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Pippa Goldschmidt
Hell and heliocentricity

Doctor Copernicus by John Banville

Review: Stephen Curry
[I]t often seems that the scientific press is more interested in publicizing the bad behavior of scientists rather than our accomplishments

Stephen Wiley, writing in The Scientist

Not so mad, bad and dangerous

Conan Doyle and a new breed of scientist

Essay: Martin Griffiths
Ecological physics envy?

On keeping up in the jargon race

Lab Rats: Tom Mahony
Eponymously yours

Lichen, libel and lab hijinks

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Fish tale

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Nik Papageorgiou
Black holes

From the LabLit science verse series

Poetry: Mike Berger
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Untangling the string

From the BSCB Writing Competition

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Why the extraterrestrial question matters

Essay: Martin Griffiths & Carlos Oliveira

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