Say “cheeks” not “cheese”– the science of smiling
Can you fake a winning smile for a photograph? In his winning article Richard Stephens won the 2014 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize (professional scientists category) with this piece on smile...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014: The Complete Shortlist
Are you travelling over Christmas? Looking for something to read while you digest your Christmas dinner? Or perhaps just wanting to expand your knowledge to impress your friends… Well we’ve got the...
View ArticleProsopagnosia – a Common Problem, Commonly Overlooked
Last month, Kate Széll was judged the winner of the Wellcome Trust’s science writing prize in category B for “anyone with a non-professional interest, including undergraduates”. More than 640 articles...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014: The winners are…
The winners of the fourth Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize were announced this evening at a ceremony held at Wellcome Trust HQ in London. With over 600 entries to choose from, picking a single...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014: How to Pitch to an Editor
It’s time to submit your Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize entries, but now you’ve got a taste for writing, how can you get paid to do more? Pitching your ideas might seem daunting, but following...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014: How to report from a science conference
The latest in our series of “How to” posts, specially commissioned for this year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, looks at how to report from a science conference. We persuaded Robin McKie,...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014: How to avoid common mistakes in science writing
With the deadline for the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize fast approaching, we thought we’d continue our “How to” series with some tips on how to avoid common mistakes. Akshat Rathi is the science...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014: How to start a science blog
The fourth in our series of “How to” blogs comes from Kelly Oakes, Science Editor of BuzzfeedUK, who shares her tips on how to start a science blog. 1. Figure out why you want to blog Maybe you’re a...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014: How to write a science feature
The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 is open for entries – offering you a chance to win £1000 and see your article in The Guardian or Observer. We know that staring at a blank page can be...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014 – Talk to me! Top tips for conducting interviews
Using original quotes when you write can really bring your piece alive, but how do you persuade people to take the time to talk to you? As part of “How to” series of posts to help you with your...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2014 – How to write a news story from a scientific paper
The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 launches today and to help inspire your entries we’re publishing a series of “How to” blogs here on the Wellcome Trust blog. Over the next few weeks we’ll...
View ArticleScience Writing Prize 2013: The shortlist
Looking for some holiday reading? We’ve got the answer. Join us on a journey through neuroscience, space, life and death, humour, sadness and sound with the winners, highly commended, and shortlisted...
View ArticleEchoes in the sand
Do you ever worry about leaving a lasting impression? In this piece, highly commended in the 2013 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize for its evocative writing and atmosphere, Josh Davis describes...
View ArticleThe revenge of the Americas
Katherine Wright won in the professional scientist category of this year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Her winning entry was published in the Observer on Sunday and has attracted hundreds of...
View ArticleStroke survivors: Retraining the brain
Patrick Russell won in the non-scientist category of this year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. His winning entry was published in the Guardian on Monday. Read it in full below. Two-thirds of...
View ArticleFighting fit: How dieticians tested if Britain would be starved into defeat
Congratulations to Laura Dawes, whose entry to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize was highly commended by the judges and published on the Guardian Science Blog today. Her piece tells of a crucial...
View ArticleKiller skills of a neutrophil
A scanning electron micrograph of an infected mouse lung shows a Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium (pink) snared in a neutrophil extracellular trap (green), a web of decondensed chromatin released by...
View ArticleThe strange future of antibiotics
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Russell Fraser on the paucity of new antibiotics and the unusual new armaments in the war against...
View ArticleThe naming of the genes
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Audrey Nailor on where scientists get their wonderful names for things. Cheap Date. ShavenBaby. Tinman....
View ArticleThe latest buzz on insomnia
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this piece, Elizabeth Hull describes how experiments in fruit flies are uncovering the genetics of sleep....
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