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According to the headline(s), the humble “manual” stethoscope is on the edge of obsolescence in the medical world, facing a high-tech upgrade to or even replacement by hand-held devices that apparently do the job better.

Selfies. Definitely notorious in the digital world. Who hasn't wrinkled up their nose in disgust at a friend's shameless self-promotion or puckered up a duck face for the camera?

It's not just zombies that rise from the dead-science news stories can also come back to haunt the reader.

As a full-service science communications agency staffed with editors, designers, writers and more, Talk Science to Me takes great pride in supporting all our clients by presenting their science in effective and engaging ways. Although most of our portfolio comprises larger organizations and institutions, we also work with individual authors and researchers to manage their writing and publishing needs.

With the arrival of a Talk Science to Me baby this summer, we're looking ahead this festive season to nurturing the next generation of science fans with some cool gifts. Crowdsourced from friends, like a lot of parenting advice these days, here's our list for keeping the kids (and adults too) fully occupied over the festive season.

I recently copy-edited a book called Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain, published by our subsidiary, Thorntree Press. The book covers a wide range of topics relevant to bisexual people and allies in the UK and other English-speaking countries. I learned a lot from editing this book, as I always do, but one thing I had to deal with was entirely new to me: content notes.