SCIENTISTS and others in the laboratory sector might be interested in these unusual business cards, created by an Italian advertising agency. Although a microscope slide might be a little impractical compared to the more usual 350gsm stock most conventional business…
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Weekly news: The academic spring – removing the paywall to knowledge
WE ALL love open access, don’t we? The very fact that you are reading this newsletter is testament to the power of the internet in providing free and easy access to huge volumes of information. But what about those who…
Weekly news: Is synthetic biology the new bogeyman?
THE SCIENTIFIC community is well used to being the bogeyman, whenever a new development in human knowledge creates the possibility in somebody’s imagination that something could go terribly wrong. Now there is a new area of scientific research to defend,…
Scientists stifled by Canadian government
ENACTING a policy that might seem more at home in North Korea, or in the darkest days of Soviet oppression, the Canadian government agency Environment Canada has issued instructions to its scientists attending an international polar research conference not to…
London Olympics dope lab given all-clear
THE ISSUE of sports doping gains importance with each new major international event, as athletes strive to gain the maximum performance from their bodies while remaining on the ‘legal’ side of the allowable limits for substances. The organisers of London…
Analysing Analytica: show weathers tough conditions
ANALYTICA 2012, the 23rd trade fair for the laboratory sector, closed today in Munich, Germany, having attracted 30,000 visitors. While the organiser is determined to put a positive spin on the figures, this represents a 10% drop from the last…
Weekly news: Deciphering the acronyms
WE MAKE it a point, whenever we can, to find out a little more about the stories we publish on the LabHomepage. One of the routine ways we do this is to decipher the acronyms and abbreviations that pepper the…
Weekly news: Left-handed asteroids and dinosaurs on other planets
IF YOU ever wonder how some of the more ludicrous science stories get into the press, this week has provided an excellent example. Every week or so the American Chemical Society puts out a press pack, mostly of worthy-but-dull items…
New particle exists in two places at once
THE WORLD of quantum physics is, for most people, difficult to grasp at the best of times. The latest research published today from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge is unlikely to change that, invoking a new class of subatomic particle…
Weekly news: Open source is the real biotech revolution
WE’RE big fans of the wider open source movement, here at the LabHomepage, and are particularly interested to see it developing into the laboratory. Open source is an umbrella term covering everything from the way scientific research is published to…