Emily Warrender

Kati Rantala, Research Director at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Finland, provides guidance through a handbook for consulting silent stakeholders during legislative drafting In my previous Open Access Government articles, I have presented a plethora of critical remarks on the position of silent stakeholders in lawmaking. For balance, I now adopt a more positive stance.

A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit Zelaya-Lainez et al. Researchers studying the jaws of an ancient marine bristle worm have shed new light on “bio-metals”, a rare class of natural materials that blur the line between biology and mineralogy The study, published in Biophysics Reviews, reveals that these protein-and-ion structures mimic the physical properties and atomic behaviours of heavy metals like copper and silver.