Real science, from real scientists, science communicators, writers, artists, clinicians
LIVE FROM NEW YORK… sort of… sorry, I just always wanted to say that in an intro. This week, LIVE FROM GENEVA, we welcome Marga Gual Soler, a Spanish-born, Australian-trained, New York-based molecular cell...
Every week at Real Scientists HQ we watch in awe as our curator amazes and engages our fabulous community. This week, we were bowled over yet again – this time by PhD student Vanessa...
It’s not rocket surgery to figure out doing a PhD is, in a word, hard. They are brain-breaking, spirit-crushing, life-changing endeavours in human fortitude and determination. They take the very best of the people...
The Australian Broadcasting Commission charter states: The principal function of the ABC is to inform, educate and entertain all Australians. After a monster week tweeting about science, journalism, radio, interviews, websites and so much...
We are delighted and privileged to welcome ABC journalist Joel Werner (@joelwerner) to Real Scientists. He ‘ll be tweeting live from the road and from the Australian Broadcasting Coorporation’s Ultimo Studios in Sydney, Australia....
Dark Matter. It makes up a large bulk of the universe, but physicists are still learning about it. This week, Dr Matthew Francis negotiated some amazing answers to queries about everything cosmological while partying...
Please welcome our next curator for Real Scientists, Dr Matthew Francis. Be-beareded and be-bowler hatted, and hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Matthew is a physicist, science writer, public speaker, and educator. Matthew writes and speaks...
Scientists are curious. We start out as all children do, fascinated by the world and want to know how it works and where everything comes from. Some of us go on to study and...
Molecular biology, to its victims, can seem a cruel mistress. A black box, where hopes and dreams (and your last microgram of precious sample) go in, and nothing but inexplicable, irreproducible failure issues forth....
This is a creek that our curator for the last week, Dr Mark Hamann, cleaned up just a week before. This is what it looks like two days after it rained: It’s just a...