Shortlisted - Science Writing Prize 2011
Category A (Professional scientists of postgraduate level and above)
- James Keidel, ‘Going into brain surgery with your eyes open’
- Fiona Lethbridge, ‘Monogamy is easy’
- James Lloyd, ‘The science of swearing’
- David Lowe, ‘Where’s the evidence?’
- Reshad Malik, ‘Treating rheumatoid arthritis: Silencing the cellular chatter’
- Scott McKellar, ‘The wonder of water’
- Marianne Neary, ‘Freedom through genetics’
- Catherine Pratt, ‘He loves me! He loves me not’
- Chris Sinclair, ‘Bacterial compass needles help point to new treatments’
- Mike Whitfield, ‘Power to the peat’
Category B (Anyone else with a non-professional interest in science, including undergraduate students)
- Zain Abbas, ‘Human embryonic stem cell research in the Islamic Republic of Iran - a paradox?’
- Crystal Bennes, ‘Porn and the plastic brain’
- Stuart Farrimond, ‘A seizing experience’
- Leili Farzaneh, ‘The missing label’
- Imogen House, ‘Blowing hot and cold’
- Mike Jones, ‘Rory Wilson and the magnetic penguins’
- Helen Klus, ‘Armchair explorers: How members of the public are taking an active role in the search for other worlds’
- Jerome Langford, ‘The mystery of the split-brain’
- Kelly Oakes, ‘Tiger stripes and ice volcanoes’
- Jasmine Spavieri, ‘Gourmet science’
- Ben Storey, ‘Thought for food’
- Daniel Swindlehurst, ‘The invention of sex’
- Bill Thisdell, ‘Speed equals distance over time’
- Keith Warren, ‘Magnets in the village’