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Conferences This week the annual two-day Science Communication Conference took place in London, its aim being to address the key issues facing science communicators in the UK, bringing together those involved in public engagement. People from a range of backgrounds including science journalists, charity workers, broadcasters, press officers and policy-makers gathered at Kings Place London. It was a great opportunity for attendees to share ideas, learn about developments and network. For those unable to attend, we have created a couple of Storify storyboards to collate all of the tweets from the event. You can see the Day 1 Storify here  … Read more

Science in the media What better way to kick off this week’s summary of NPG’s blogs than with Khalil A. Cassimally’s post, Science Blogs Are Good For You. He reveals that due to the lack of science interest in the traditional media, science enthusiasts are starved of news relating to great research and new discoveries. Khalil asks what are the best ways for those interested in science, to connect to the achievements of the scientific world. He suggests blogging as an appropriate medium: The interesting thing about the science blogosphere (the community of science blogs, science bloggers and readers) is  … Read more

Research Gold In her latest post Paige Brown has been examining the unusual work of The Xia lab group from Washington University. She reveals that they are modern day alchemists turning silver into hollow, porous boxes of gold called nanocages. She reveals in her post, Modern Day Alchemy, that these scientists are using these gold nanocages as ‘magic bullets’ in the war against cancer: Xia’s gold nanocages have been investigated in previously published studies for their usefulness as imaging contrast agents, cancer diagnosis tools, transducers of photothermal therapy (killing tumor cells with the effects of light and heat), and targeted  … Read more