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Weekly news: the power of scientific video

I’VE ALWAYS been a sucker for scientific imaging competitions, which is just as well as this seems to be one of the main growth areas in science today. Every month seems to bring along a new competition for scientists to…

Weekly news: the science of seasonal spending

IT CANNOT have escaped your attention that, here in the western world at least, we are currently in the middle of the annual panic-inducing spendfest we call Christmas. The wallet-emptying season seems to start earlier each year, presaged by the…

Weekly news: Squeezing the Juice from a frozen lake

I’M GENUINELY intrigued by the reports which have surfaced in the last few days from the deep drilling project in Antarctica, which has found thriving microbial colonies in very hostile conditions in a sub-glacial lake. It has long been suggested…

Weekly news: For whom the Nobel tolls?

DOES anybody still place any importance on the Nobel Peace Prize, or has this once-prestigious award finally made a mockery of itself one time too many? In the world of science, in the public eye at least, no accolade has…