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FIRST PRIZE (£1000 and a two-week media placement)

Nora Schultz, University of Cambridge, UK: How to fold a fish: What cells do during neurulation

SECOND PRIZE (£750)

Joao Medeiros, Imperial College London, UK: The big bang channel

THIRD PRIZE (£500)

Sarah Purdy, University College London, UK: The sweeter side of death

RUNNERS-UP

Leann Clark, University of Bristol, UK: So long salmonella

Kathryn McNamara, University of Melbourne, Australia: Sex in the pantry

Claire Schwartz, University of Bristol, UK: Stress: A tale of intrigue and heartache

Shehzad Iqbal, University of Manitoba, Canada: From milkmaids to sex workers, the mystery of natural immunity to HIV

Richard Maunder, Brunel University, UK: Sex, steroids and sticklebacks

Jonathan Gledhill, University of Cambridge, UK: Motoring towards medicine

Rosie Chance, University of East Anglia, UK: An elemental enigma: Unravelling the iodine cycle in Antarctica

Kachina Allen, University of Sydney, Australia: Cocktails and hearing aids

Helen Marie Kyriacou, University of Edinburgh, UK: Scoring a goal in the fight against malaria

Alison Blyth, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Alchemy in the underworld: Science’s hidden archive