All articles by Laura Fisher
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Review
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
What is it like to do research in a remote part of Greenland
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Podcast
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind by Sue Black – Book club
From the horrific to the absurd, forensic anthropologist Sue Black’s new book is a true pageturner
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Review
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
A forensic anthropology pageturner filled with cases ranging from historic excavations to recent murder investigations
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Review
The Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
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Review
The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
Adam Rutherford sets out to explain what it is that sets us apart from other animals
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Review
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental & Physical Ability
Meet the people at the peak of their powers
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Review
All that remains: a life in death
Forensic anthropologist Sue black shares her fascination with anatomy and determination to help the loved ones of those that die
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Review
The many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six
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Research
Solving the crystal maze
Workflow swaps gut feelings for data when designing continuous crystallisation processes
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Research
Production line for gecko-inspired adhesive
Scientists devise manufacturing process for material that replicates a gecko’s remarkable stickiness
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Review
Adapt: how we can learn from nature’s strangest inventions
Laura Fisher reviews a tale of bio-inspired technology
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Research
Flash lithiation made safe
Micromixing enables protecting-group-free synthesis of organolithiums
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Review
Which yet survive: impressions of friends, family and encounters
Memoirs of travelling chemist John Mills
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Research
Sweat pore mimic unblocks perspiration theory
Microfluidic device shows that antiperspirants control sweating by forming pore-plugging aggregates with perspiration proteins
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Research
Tiny bubbles made easier
Shrinking the microbubbles needed for ultrasound with microfluidics
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Review
Outbreak! 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world
A tour of history’s most devastating diseases
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Research
Automated fluorine radiolabelling moves closer to the clinic
New technique could improve tumour diagnosis and treatment