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26 Oct 2017: Richard, The economic costs of pain in the United States. J Pain, 2012.

27 Apr 2017: It has been more than 20 years since I set foot in Murray Edwards, excited to have made it to Cambridge. I had chosen to study Maths, the subject that I most loved at school. Soon after I found out th

25 May 2017: I work as a Senior Patent Attorney at a leading semiconductor design company.  Previously I worked as a Patent Attorney in a UK Patent and Trademark Attorney firm, and before this I spent some ti

23 Feb 2017: So why do we, the human race, adore these loveable creatures? If you don't then you're not human, seriously if you find pandas ugly there is something wrong. A behavioural neuroscientist calle

30 Sep 2017: The Gateway Challenges and Rosemary Murray fund allowed me to spend 5 weeks of my summer travelling around South-East Asia with a group of four friends. We left at the end of June, which meant that af

16 Mar 2017: Flow chemistry equipment   One of the things that is challenging about scientific research is that the problems needing to be solved are constantly evolving. Solutions which were previousl

28 Sep 2017: In 1983, when I was a Cambridge undergraduate studying Part II Pathology, the virus HIV was identified in patients suffering from a newly observed fatal disease called AIDS (acquired immune defici

16 Feb 2017: There are women in science. And then there is the science of women in science. Exploring and applying this science is important to me as a social psychologist, from the USA. Why do we need a science o

24 Oct 2017: As we have seen these past weeks with Harvey Weinstein, unfettered power leaves the way open for the unscrupulous, arrogant and narcissistic. Whether in film, sports or music, the differences in rewar

11 May 2017: What area of science are you working in? I am the chief editor of Nature Reviews Materials – a journal published by Springer Nature. We launched in January 2016 and, as the first journal in the

1 Jun 2017: Naked mole rats are undoubtedly ugly. With a hairless wrinkled body, small sharp claws and two large protruding teeth capable of moving independently, they appear more like a mutant from a horror fi

2 Mar 2017: Materials Science for me was a good middle ground between engineering and “pure” science, as it lies at the boundaries between chemistry, physics, and engineering. It is a very directly ap

30 Sep 2017: During the summer, I joined a team of 20 students to participate as a research assistant in a two week wildlife conservation expedition in Croatia. The trip was coordinated by Operation Wallacea, an o

10 Nov 2017: Waking up to experiments with plants and algae. My name’s Liat and I’m currently in my fourth year studying for a masters in Biochemistry. I started out at Murray Edwards doing natural sciences whi

12 Oct 2017:   I’m about to start my second year studying maths at Cambridge and I can’t wait to go back, even though it had never actually been my plan to do maths! I originally intended to do physics, ha

20 Apr 2017: My educational background gave me a passion for applied science and engineering, and a summer vacation job in the chemical industry gave me an appreciation for the wide variety of opportunities availa

26 Jan 2017: The amount of times I’ve tripped over or hit something while walking around in the dark is unfathomable; it’s got to the point where I’ve somewhat accepted my incapability to manoeuv

30 Sep 2017: Upon completing my first year of studying the “classic trio” of the Physical Natural Sciences modules, physics, chemistry and material science, I was left uncertain which branch of science was the mos

30 Sep 2017: My Gateway funding allowed me to travel with four friends to New York, Toronto and through the Canadian Rockies for a total of 16 days. We flew into Toronto thinking that we would have a couple of hou

4 May 2017: Optunia Microdasys (‘Bunny ears’ cactus)   There has been increased demand for new methods of separating oil and water mixtures both from environmental protection organis