by Dan on November 10, 2008

A grad student, a post-doc, and a professor are walking through a city park and they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out in a puff of smoke. The Genie says, "I usually only grant three wishes, so I'll (read on...)

by Dan on October 13, 2008

Have you heard: the 2009 AAAS Science Dance Contest is open for submissions: Are you the sort of scientist who taps her toes while working in the laboratory? Didn't I see you pirouette on your way to the fume hood? You look like (read on...)

by Nick on September 30, 2008

With all of our recent talk about how SDS-PAGE works and how to improve your gels, I wouldn't want to give the impression that running protein gels is easy or foolproof. On the contrary, just like everything else in research, (read on...)

by Dan on September 23, 2008

Popular voting is open for the Nikon Small World competition. This thing is great, revealing the beauty of the extremely small in images such as the above one from last year's competition. Small World is regarded as the leading (read on...)

by Nick on September 2, 2008

Alex Dent's hilarious cartoons that caricatured the turmoil of life as a postdoc are a must see. Alex produced most of his cartoons during early 90's, and lit up many an edition of the NIH Catalyst newsletter, until he finally (read on...)

by Nick on July 15, 2008

It seems that everyone is throwing their hands up about gas/petrol prices these days. In the US, gas prices have now reached $4/gallon, while in the UK, they are hovering around a whopping $10/gallon. But what's all the fuss (read on...)

by Bala on June 20, 2008

If you've been interested in the Folding at Home project, but wanted to play a much more active role then your wait is over. Join Fold It! Protein structure prediction: As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is (read on...)

by Nick on May 20, 2008

You know what it's like. You're committed to your career, you work long hours so you don't get to socialise as much as you needed to meet that special someone. And those people you do meet wouldn't know their a-factor from their (read on...)

by Nick on April 17, 2008

Well, I don't have time to write a proper article today, so for your reading pleasure I'd like to point you to a great article posted yesterday on the New Scientist website by Michael Le Page. It covers some misconceptions (read on...)

by Dan on March 12, 2008

After yesterday's bit of whimsical late-night creativity, I thought that today might be a good time to share the results of the 2008 Wellcome Image Awards. These images have been captured using both traditional and cutting-edge (read on...)