Visual descriptions of text are incredibly powerful. Some key ‘good practices’ in preparing your figures.

Don’t Igore Null Results
You can learn a lot from null results. Don’t ignore them, they could be your most valuable discovery.
Visual descriptions of text are incredibly powerful. Some key ‘good practices’ in preparing your figures.

You can learn a lot from null results. Don’t ignore them, they could be your most valuable discovery.

Serious scientific answers to hypothetical questions like “If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?”.

All our ancestors had plenty of fur. According to a new study on relatively hairless mammals, we still have the means to be hirsute. Those genes, it seems, have simply been switched off.


At some stage you will likely need to conduct a literature review – but did you know there are different types? Each has its own specific methodology that should be followed for the review to be considered robust.

A NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in Earth’s first planetary-defence test.

If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission has been given an official Spotify playlist.
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