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Frontiers for Young Minds: A New Resource for Budding Scientists

Posted by , on 17 December 2015

Sara M. Szczepanski1,2, Amanda M. Baker3, Robert T. Knight1,2 1Department of Psychology, 2Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA, 3Frontiers, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland   About ...

On a quest to understand what has made us human - A special edition of The Biochemist

Posted by , on 27 October 2015

As developmental biologists, we are fascinated by the ability of an organism to become, from a single fertilised egg, a fully functional individual. However, as human beings we are equally ...

The Story Behind the Campaign to Put a Woman of Science on the $10 Bill

Posted by , on 26 October 2015

  Originally posted to the blog Genes to Genomes, reposed with permission. Don Gibson (University of California, Davis) describes how he decided to start the Barbara on the Bill Campaign When I heard that ...

The Rapstract

Posted by , on 25 September 2015

In a world first, Phil Day presents a complete summary of a peer-reviewed scientific paper in the medium of rap: The Rapstract. Original paper: Dr. Carolina Barcellos-Machado et al., Reconstruction ...

Biology Week 2015

Posted by , on 1 September 2015

An annual celebration of the biosciences, with events around the UK and beyond Biology Week showcases the important and amazing world of the biosciences, getting everyone from children to professional ...

Talking about Science using Comics: A Stem Cell example

Posted by , on 28 August 2015

  “A Stem Cell Adventure” is a comic book about stem cell research, and resulted from a project on science outreach carried out by several researchers at the Center for ...

High school students blog about StemCellTalks

Posted by , on 27 June 2015

StemCellTalks is a Canadian high school outreach initiative that has been running in 7 Canadian cities since 2010. This symposium was established to facilitate knowledge transfer between academia and high ...

An evening at Pint of Science USA - Boston/Cambridge

Posted by , on 21 May 2015

Pint of Science is a science outreach organization that holds an annual festival across 9 countries (UK, Ireland, France, Italy, USA, Australia, Spain, Germany and Brazil) in 6 major themes, ...

The science of the cat in your computer: our journey into crowdfunded sequencing of LilBUB

Posted by , on 27 April 2015

About a year ago – when spending some quality afterwork time on the Internet – me and my benchmate Dario stumbled upon LilBUB. If you’re an internet cat afficionado you’ve probably ...

Going LIVE with your Science Communication

Posted by , on 19 March 2015

Heather Hendrickson (Senior Lecturer in Molecular Bioscience, Massey University)   I have had my personal ups and downs with live performance. I was 4 years old when, convinced I was ...

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