Felix Grant 'sonified' his friends' heartbeats and found that young men respond to popular music's base rhythm, but young women to female vocals

A well (or badly!) timed baseball to the chest can cause cardiac fibrillation. Ray Girvan explores how science is unlocking the secrets of the human heart

No laboratory is an island and laboratory software has to talk to enterprise resource planning software, as Mark Gonzalez explains

Electronic signatures can bring a ninefold increase in laboratory throughput, Peter Rees discovered. But first, companies may have to throw away popular software