Yoghurt

We all want to feel good – ideally without having to do anything for it. This provides great opportunities for manufacturers of health products. Homeopaths do particularly well in this field. But despite these charlatans can we really condemn all the products that claim to make us feel better? Well, of course we can’t, but we need scientific experiments, especially clinical trials, to find out what’s quackery and what’s not.

X-ray Crystallography at Diamond

Recently some particularly keen crystallographers at Diamond filmed their visit to the beamline and posted it on youtube. Maybe not as amusing as the LHC's resident rapper, but this does give a brief glimpse into data collection practicalities for the modern structural biologist.

I'm an idiot, but an excited one!

A first post





What on Earth am I letting myself in for?
A few weeks ago I was rash enough to respond to an email and apply to take part in “I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here”, (IAS2010) later this month (June 14th - 25th 2010).