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The Big Bang revealed
Can the universe's origins survive the 'For Dummies' treatment?
My kids think I'm a boffin
A science teacher stumbles over a stereotype
Heat
A new short story from João Ramalho-Santos
... and more!
Past highlights
The image that draws the writer
Amy Charles on science illustrations
The Day After Today
Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Dr. Flirt
Can a PhD attract women?
Bad cop
Guardian
columnist Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists
Unkind literature
Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
The Glider
Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
Marketing lab lit fiction
An experiment with Waterstone's
Sex in the lab
What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?
Experiment, Part II
Fiction:
João Ramalho-Santos
Never fall in love with your hypothesis: that was one of the best things he had learned in graduate school
The origin of science analogies
Essay:
Alom Shaha
Analogies can lead to misconceptions, but they are an invaluable tool, not just in teaching science, but also in doing it
NEW!
The next stage
What lies at the end of funding?
Lab Rats:
Stella Hill
Democracy rules
Who should set the research agenda?
Editorial:
Jennifer Rohn
If you can't contemplate leaving research, at least do what you can to protect your future
NEW!
Richard Gallagher, writing in
The Scientist
The limits of humanity
The ethics of human/animal hybrids
Essay:
Bill Hanage
The face of god
From the LabLit short story series
Fiction:
Ian Brooks
Private Investigations
Have
you
got what it takes?
Fiction:
rpg
The double flip-flop
The fine art of deadline avoidance
Humor:
Bernard Thierry
The eyes have it
The Last Enemy
on BBC1
Review:
Bill Hanage
[At CERN] [y]ou often see a younger guy with an older guy gossiping and having coffee, but never a woman
Freya Blekman, quoted in
Nature
Spiritus sancti
From the LabLit science verse series
Poetry:
Derek Adams
Surreal science
'Pataphysics of Sound at South Bank Centre
Review:
Matt Day
Escape velocity
From the LabLit science verse series
Poetry:
rpg
Eco-disaster looms
The Doomsday Genie
by Frank Ryan
Review:
Ian Brooks
Science at sea
An homage to Patrick O'Brian
Essay:
Stephen Curry
A search for self
Richard Powers'
The Echo Maker
Review:
Henry Joy McCracken
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Having a quantum bad-hair day
Poetry:
Lloyd Graham
Lab Rats, The Play
Sins and secrets revealed
Fiction:
Robin Plevin
Survey
Most exciting lab equipment?
In the news
What is LabLit.com?
- Learn more on the
Guardian
's 'Science Weekly' podcast
"From bench to book"
- LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in
Nature
Behind the scenes
- Q&A of LabLit's editor in
Nature
"Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"
- LabLit's editor in
Laboratory News
"LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"
- Scott Keir,
Nature Network London
"Why aren't white coats sexy?"
- LabLit's editor writes in
The Biochemist
"It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
- novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
"FUN: Still life, with test tube"
-
Science
magazine recommends LabLit
"Experimental fiction"
- LabLit's editor talks fiction in
Nature
"A light touch and some panache"
- LabLit reviewed by
The Biochemist