The recent controversy over the new data suggesting that neutrinos move faster than light has thrown up some fun stuff. This includes a candidate for shortest abstract of a scientific paper.
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Writing for Nature Materials
Of course as a research scientist I write and publish scientific papers, but for the first time I recently wrote, with a Nature Materials editor, a News and Views article. These articles discuss in terms the main findings and implications of an important research article. Writing the News and Views article was an interesting experience.
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How to patent the same drug more than once
On Friday I was at a meeting in which most of the speakers were scientists working in the pharmaceutical industry. It was at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s London office which is just off Piccadilly in London. This was handy as there is an iron law of scientific meetings: The coffee is terrible. At lunch […]
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Measurement error
As a physicist of course I believe in quantitative measurements. For example physicists have measured the charge on the electron to an accuracy of more than 8 significant figures. This is great. But electrons are very simple objects. Scientists are more complex, and so a quantitative measurement of a scientist’s work is harder to do. […]
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