This red vessel pendant by Etsy seller nervoussystem is inspired by the structure of blood vessels (and other rhyzome structures). Check out the rest of the store for more science-inspired …

I wrote a guest post on Occam’s Typewriter’s Irregulars blog, about crowdfunding research. Here’s a tiny fragment. Research can’t guarantee any outcomes. You can’t promise funders that you’re going to …

I’ve been reading about William Herschel lately. While working as a musician, he spent his spare time making – and using – telescopes. It was with a telescope of his …

Philip Howie is a percussionist in several Cambridge orchestras, but during the day he’s a materials scientist who just finished his PhD. This is a fragment of a conversation we …

A book with my name on the cover was published yesterday! The official title is “The Best Science Writing Online 2012”. Technically, it should be called “Some of the Subjectively …

I studied chemistry for my undergraduate degree, and for our first- and second year labs we had to all have our own lab coat. They were of the kind of …