Research is more profitable and productive than ever before, but it risks losing its sense of values and ethics.
- Emeritus Professor, Brunel University of London
Science is rarely about an individual genius saving the day.
Using the right metaphor in science is important.
Why it’s important to fund blue-skies research.
The story of an amazing man you have probably never heard of.
Chirurgien-chef de l’armée de Napoléon, Dominique-Jean Larrey mit son sens de l'innovation au service des blessés et des malades.
The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
A placebo is an important tool for finding out if a treatment works or not. A dummy pill is one thing, but is it right to perform placebo surgery on someone?
Edward Jenner deliberately infected a young boy with cowpox and then smallpox. But his method wasn’t as mad as is often made out.
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