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Last week we were mesmerised by the glowing (literally) and incredibly important work on infectious diseases carried out by artist, scientist and communicator Dr Siouxsie Wiles in her New Zealand lab. This week, we...
Fireflies! Who knew they would ever be more useful than as points of beauty in a tropical night? The reaction that results in the emission of sparkly – or more correctly, luminescent light –...
To the extreme, I rock the mic like a vandal… sorry, no idea what came over me there. *cough* I guess it’s because we are incandescently excited to welcome amazing NZ-based microbiologist Dr Siouxsie...
Nice guys finish last. Chris Slape is a nice guy, and he’s happy to be last. Last author, anyway, since that generally signifies progress: from a wet-behind-the-ears student or postdoc to a Proper Grown...
From the phanerozoic and Australian fossils fauna to the state-of-the-art medicine, we welcome cancer researcher Dr Chris Slape to Real Scientists. Dr Chris Slape (@ChrisSlape) is a postdoctoral researcher who has studied the molecular...
This is fun. I’ve never had so many friends. — realscientists (@realscientists) September 9, 2013 Palaeontologist Sam Arman’s week as curator of @realscientists is at an end – barely a wink in geological timescales,...
Beards in science. They are a thing, and they are an AWESOME thing. Since our inception, @RealScientists have strived, or striven, or strove… it’s early and I don’t have an operating brain, sorry… to...
This week we were delighted to go truly international on Real Scientists, hosting science journalist Shaira Panela, who hails from the beautiful islands of the Philippines. Right off the mark, Shai was bombarded with...
From Sydney, Australia to the Philippines, this week Real Scientists heads to South East Asia to spend the week with science journalist, researcher and producer Shaira Panela/@ShaiPanela. Shai started out studying for a science...
We’re used to thinking of archaeologists as Fedora-wearing, curse-breaking dusty types, fossicking about in the sands, interpreting cultures from a single bone. Our Galactic Archaeologist and Real Scientist this week, Nick Bate, sifts through...