To an outside observer research has a great air of focus, planning and careful consideration. From vaccine research to Nobel prize winning physics, research looks well organised and planned. To anyone that has ever worked in research then the reality is often confusion and a lot of eye rolling. But, Read more…
Humans are an inventive bunch. We’re not long out of the trees and our brains have already given us literature, art and the sciences. We are a creative species that constantly seeks to invent, create and problem solve. However, as smart as we are Nature is often one of the Read more…
This Christmas to try and keep our scientific minds active and not despair at experiments lost but think to new experiments we can do. If we can’t do experiments in the lab let’s do experiments on Christmas!
There have been many changes since the start of the COVID crisis. For one the frequency of articles that start “something something COVID crisis” have sky rocketed and I’ve never started so many emails with “I hope you are well” and meant it with genuine concern. But one change was Read more…
We still have some of our limited edition foil Christmas cards in stock and we’d very much like to try and sell them all! From now until Christmas Day (or as long as stocks last) we’re going to run a sale where if you buy one of our snazzy 2020 Read more…
Hello! It’s now getting close to the festive season and it’s time to talk cards! This year we’ve created a limited edition xmas card for you to send to anyone that you want to share some sciency cheer with. Our card was chosen from 4 different designs (all of which Read more…
It’s a brave new world. Universities, once busy centres of social interaction, intelligent discourse and complex drinking games, have become ghost towns which echo with only the sound of remote learning servers.
Teaching in universities has always been a strange thing. Anyone that has been through the university system is oh too aware of it’s inconsistencies, eccentricities and tweed. But things have suddenly changed….
At the start of the year we had so many cool and exciting plans and I think it safe to say all of those are currently hiding under a blanket fort made of face masks…..
There are lots of reasons that you may need to take a break from working in the lab at some point. Over this year an unprecedented number of people have spent a significant time away from their labs and are only just now starting to go back. This is a Read more…