Right now, some scientist, somewhere, is almost certainly toiling over a science poster by attempting to fit months’ or perhaps even years’ worth of research onto a single — albeit large — sheet of ...

We’re big fans of science humor here at Surprising Science HQ. Some of the funniest, most innovative new comics have a science angle, whether it’s dinosaur spokescharacters, grad students toiling in a ...

Baby Einstein may be a load of crap, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use design to smarten up your kids when they’re a bit older. We recommend “Here to There,” a gorgeous series of posters created by ...

I just got back from judging elementary level science fair (this is like kids in 6th grade or something). Here are some quick notes in no particular order. Please, please do not have a 20 item list of ...

Missing persons posters and billboards have had a revamp, with experts turning to science and technology to make them more memorable. The charity Missing People hopes the changes will maximise the ...

Once you finish designing your poster, have your lab mentor look it over, and have your PI (i.e., the professor whose lab you’re in) look at it, too. It’s important that you get your mentor’s approval ...

This week’s Red Folder focuses on things you can do at home. There is something therapeutic about colouring in pictures. Perhaps it takes some of us back to a childhood before the Internet and ...

Many promising drugs which show efficacy in animal models have failed in the clinic due to interspecies variance in nociception mechanisms. Hence, consistent, scalable human in vitro models are ...