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  Flaws and forgiveness

  We talk to Anna Ziegler about Photograph 51
  Jennifer Rohn 11 October 2015
• Interview

  GMO sabotage and other tales

  Novelist Rebecca Nesbit
  Jennifer Rohn 17 August 2014
• Interview

  Live long and prosper

  A brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey
  Akshat Rathi 9 March 2010
• Interview

  The making of Naturally Obsessed

  Richard and Carole Rifkind
  Amy Charles 1 November 2009
• Interview

  The positive side of the negative

  David Alcántara Parra champions lost knowledge
  Charles Ebikeme 28 June 2009
• Interview

  Why is science important?

  Alom Shaha chats about his most important film to date
  Jennifer Rohn 22 March 2009
• Interview

  Stardom

  Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on policy, the public and Pluto
  Ian Brooks 22 February 2009
• Interview

  Explaining the world

  Author and scientist Karl Iagnemma
  Amy Charles 16 November 2008
• Interview

  He's here all week, folks

  Science comedian Brian Malow
  Ian Brooks 2 November 2008
• Interview

  ID busting

  Kenneth Miller and the fight for evolution in schools
  Ian Brooks 18 August 2008
• Interview

  The HMS Beagle reborn

  Karen James helps bring Darwin's epic voyage to life
  Jennifer Rohn 29 June 2008
• Interview

  Reenacting real scientists on screen

  ReGenesis guru Aled Edwards
  Jennifer Rohn 20 January 2008
• Interview

  Science and charity come together in Africa

  A chat with epidemiologist Mark Booth
  Jennifer Rohn 6 January 2008
• Interview

  King of the Sun

  Stuart Clark on science communication and solar storms
  Jennifer Rohn 17 June 2007
• Interview

  The Newtonian Legacy emerges

  Physicist Nick Evans uses fiction to bring his world to life
  Jennifer Rohn 4 March 2007
• Interview

  The day after today

  Interview with novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
  Jennifer Rohn 4 February 2007
• Interview

  Pretty in Ink

  The brains behind Inkling, a new science webzine
  Jennifer Rohn 17 December 2006
• Interview

  Queen of the cocktails

  Physics served up with style
  21 October 2006
• Interview

  The natural history of a plant scientist

  8 July 2006
• Interview

  It's good to SciTalk

  Ann Lackie on her life, her novels and a new organization that brings writers and scientists together
  8 November 2005
• Interview

  Bad cop

  On the joys of science quackery: an interview with the Guardian's Ben Goldacre
  4 September 2005
• Interview

  Foam Fatale

  On bubbles, robots, condensed matter, doughnuts, fan mail, art and life: an interview with Sidney Perkowitz
  6 July 2005
• Interview

  Painting for life

  Scientist-turned-artist Lizzie Burns explores the world in a new way
  24 April 2005
• Interview

  He's got brains on call

  Dominick McIntyre likes to get inside his friends' heads
  7 March 2005
• Interview

  Novels under the microscope

  Chris McCabe, scientist and author, applies the scientific method to literature
  7 March 2005

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  • Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey

    Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging

  • A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni

    Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series

  • The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica

    Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission

  • Stardom

    Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The day after today

    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Dr. Flirt

    Can a PhD attract women?

  • Bad cop

    Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists

  • Unkind literature

    Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys

  • The Glider

    Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up

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    An experiment with Waterstone's

  • Sex in the lab

    What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

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• In the news

  • Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes

    Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics

  • Scientists in space - and beyond

    Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4

  • The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality

    Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature

  • Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease

    Piece in Physics World

  • In-depth interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

    Seven Books (About Scientists) to Get You Through Winter

  • "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"

    NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof

  • "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."

    Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today

  • "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows

    The New York Times likes LabLit.com

  • 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like

    The New Scientist talks to Jenny

  • Light reading

    LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition

  • Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"

    51stories.com recommends Lablit.com

  • "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"

    BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us

  • "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"

    - The Boston Globe gets into science novels

  • "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"

    Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News

  • "Science is a great topic for a novel"

    Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times

  • A lab lit renaissance?

    Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise

  • "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"

    Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels

  • "Science is only one side of the story"

    Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news

  • "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"

    Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com

  • "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"

    Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com

  • "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"

    Cell

  • "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"

    Chemistry World on LabLit.com

  • What is LabLit.com?

    Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast

  • "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

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist

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