FIRST PRIZE (£1500)
Tom Moorhouse, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford: “Reintroducing ‘Ratty'”
SECOND PRIZE (£750)
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Isabel Jimenez Acquarone, London: “At the heart of it…”
JOINT THIRD PRIZE (£375)
Maxine Holder, London: “Born to be wild type” Mark Walton, Oxford: “Is it really worth it?”
RUNNERS-UP
Simon Kew, Cambridge: “Fantastic plastic?”
Danielle Turner, St John’s College, Cambridge: “Surprise! Surprise!”
Gregory Pryor, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida: “To see a world in a polliwog gut”
Lucy Ziegler, Pool-In-Wharfedale, Leeds: “Cancer: Will the knife improve your life?”
Robert Alcock, Leamington Spa: “Confessions of a limpet killer”
Lorraine Boran, Dublin: “Viewing stroke rehabilitation in a novel light: Prisms and neglect”
Emma Carter, Edgbaston, Birmingham: “Extreme road crossing”
Catherine Henderson, Oxford: “A fussy fungus”
Oliver Jones, Lingfield, Surrey: “Does urban sewage have a drug problem?”
Johanna Judge, Edinburgh: “Rabbiting on”
The New Millennial Science Essay Competition is held jointly by The Wellcome Trust and New Scientist. The winning essay will be published in New Scientist on 11 October.
