“Well, at least it hurt less than grad school at Cornell.”

‘Corey’ says getting a tattoo of fulvic acid – the subject of his PhD – on his back wasn’t so bad (The Loom).

“If this problem isn’t addressed then there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat.”

Catherine Ison, of the UK’s Health Protection Agency, warns that the sexually transmitted disease may be becoming drug resistant (BBC).

“For more than 30 years Britain has not done space rockets. But perhaps there is hope.”

Doug Millard, of the Science Museum, ponders the UK’s new space agency (Daily Telegraph).