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How your kids might help you in ways you never imagined
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Rhea Chatterjea on how pregnancy doesn’t just take, but gives as well. If you broke your arm when you...
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The inner noise sublimation: Can hearing voices be normal?
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this article, Marika Ciuffa discusses proposed changes in the way psychiatrists understand and interpret...
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Cyanobacteria and Smarties
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Greta Santagata expounds the wonder of cyanobacteria and how they had the answer for Smarties. We have...
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Why can’t we talk to the animals?
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Ben Ambridge describes one theory of why our pets don’t talk back. A sulky-looking chimpanzee As a...
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The smell of music
Sound and vision are not the only senses that work together – new studies show that even sound and smell can form an unlikely pairing, writes Cassie Barton. This essay won the General category in the...
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Lost in translation: The dangers of using analogies in science
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this article, Richard Roche explains how analogies can sometimes get in the way of science, not to mention...
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We are what we repeatedly do
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Dave MacLeod on what our habits tell us about ourselves. Imagine how difficult life would be if you...
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Remembering to forget
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Ravi Das on how new understanding of memory may help us treat drug addiction. Welcome to the game. The...
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Gaining a sense of perspective
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this piece, Susannah Lydon takes us with her on a scientific pilgrimage to find fearsome fossils and a...
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Everyday enhancements
Oscar Pistorius We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, David Lawrence on the common forms of human enhancement. I should warn you: I took a...
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Family planning for mosquitoes: Genetically modified insects to fight dengue...
Aedes aegypti mosquito We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Michael Conway writes about efforts to stop the spread of dengue fever by using...
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As easy as riding a bicycle?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the Guardian and the Observer. This year, one entry in the...
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The 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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The 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....
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The 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...
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Killer 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...
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Fighting 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...
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Stroke 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...
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The 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...
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Echoes 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...
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