Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science ...

A while ago a conservationist called Andrew Balmford wrote a letter in Science pointing out an intriguing fact that many parents are alre...

This has been in the works for a while now, but it's finally through, Lab Rat has a new home! http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-ra...

This is the first time in ten years that I haven't had an exam around summer-time. It feels odd, everyone around me is either exam-stres...

In posts one and two of this mini-series I explored how plants can defend against bacteria by releasing dangerous chemicals and by killing...

The first post of this mini-series covered how plants can defend themselves against bacterial attack by releasing chemicals, either on a re...

Although I've never officially studied immunology, my second year course in Pathology left me with a pretty solid idea of how humans def...

It's been in the news a lot, but for those who've missed it there's a particularly deadly strain of E. coli that has reared its...

This is the eleventh edition of the Carnival of Molecular Biology , a travelling goodie-bag dealing with all things small and cellular. Whe...

For those of you who might have missed my writing, I've written a piece for the Varsity magazine "Not-Sci" section, which exam...