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

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 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

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