Editorial issue 75
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Slow and steady wins the race: an exciting new material for long-acting medicines
Do you remember the last time you took a medicine? It was very likely in the form of a pill. But what actually happens to the medicine in your body after you swallow it? Once the pill arrives in your stomach, it is broken down to release the medically active molecules that will treat your […]
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Ashes and abs: testing calcium in gladiator tonic
Travel back to ancient Rome, test the calcium content of a gladiator recovery drink and compare it to today’s milk and sports drinks. History has never tasted this real!
Neutron science: a quantum story
How tiny quantum particles dig into the mysteries of future materials.
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Articles from previous issues
Mercury and Mars in May
The month of May brings with it two different planetary wonders, allowing us to recreate calculations first made 300 years…
Astronomy / space
Ten things we’ve learned about the Higgs boson in the past ten years
Meet the Higgs boson: what have physicists learned about this particle in the ten years since its…
Physics, News from the EIROs
Looking to the heavens: climate change experiments
In the second of two articles, Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer chemistry and physics experiments to harness the…
Physics, Earth science, Engineering
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EMBL Insight Lecture 2025
Introduce your students (15+) to cutting-edge science by joining the EMBL Insight Lecture with Dr Julia Mahamid on 16 December and explore how cryo-electron tomography reveals life’s hidden molecular machinery in stunning detail.
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