When most people think of scientists, a certain image of a scruffy bespectacled person in a white lab coat commonly springs to mind. Whilst this stereotype exists for a reason, a new revolutionary paradigm for the way science is conducted may prove to be the antidote to this outdated trope. This idea is citizen science.…

  As I descend the stairs into the Canon’s Gait pub to attend an Edinburgh Pint of Science talk, one of a series of events aimed at communicating science to the public in a relaxed and fun environment (with the added incentive of beer), I can’t help but think about something that apparently, as a…