Chrissie Hynde
: Don't Get Me Wrong: I Won't Stand For Cruelty to Geese
Charles Moore
: Margaret Thatcher's First Visit to Washington of the Reagan Presidency
Natalie Bennett
: Jobs You Can Build a Life On: The British Economy Isn't Delivering
Seth Freedman
: We Don't Need No Regulation
Lorenzo Belenguer
: Chelsea Flower Show - It's an Explosion!
The woman who gave birth to the world's first test tube baby has died. Lesley Brown, who lived in Whitchurch, Bristol, made history in July 1978 wh...
Believe it or not, there's a scientist out there researching what happens to a slinky when you drop it from a great height. His name is Mike Wheatland...
The best is still to come, because while scientists can predict the arrival of a scientific revolution, they never can predict the advances that will arise from this change of worldview.
As the Dalai Lama shares his message of dialogue and compassion in the UK in the coming days, we might find ourselves wondering whether a compassionate outlook can really be a driving force in our political, economic and social institutions.
When it comes to providing modern energy services, for instance, does sustainable development mean centralised grid infrastructure powered by large scale low carbon generation? Or does it also mean experimenting with off-grid solar home systems and other micro-generation technologies?
A new European telescope destined to become the world's biggest eye on the sky has been given the green light. Plans to build the £900m European E...
Nasa has found a huge 'forest' of algae under the Arctic Ocean, a discovery they say is equivalent to finding a rainforest in a desert. A giant blo...
A nuclear reprocessing site which has been in operation for 20 years is to close in 2018 after current contracts are completed, it was confirmed on Th...
So, are scientific theories poetic? Mary Midgley, with her deep care for poetry and literature, talked so clearly and freeingly about the patterns that frame different scientific outlooks, and how scientists need to be aware that they are imbued with metaphors, and other aspects of cultural life (which include poetry) that the question seemed pretty empty by the end.
As the head of a British start-up science business I have found myself deeply concerned by the reaction to the Rothamsted GM wheat trial in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. I quite firmly believe that as a society, and for the British science industry specifically, we have reached a moment of truth.
A mood of scientific self-righteousness has broken out in the UK. The 'geeks' - professional scientists committed to evidence-based policy - are on the march. What has brought this on?
There's an inherent danger in any sector of education: if the teachings fail to measure up to the truth, then we'll be paving the way for a deep distrust and a greater apathy. With this in mind, it is of tremendous enthusiasm that we welcome Professor Nutt's book: Drugs - Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs.
I knew the issues surrounding GM food were controversial but never did I imagine that my taking part in a protest would induce such a backlash. Naive? Possibly. Bewildered? Definitely.
The real latent risks to life on earth are unpredictable impacts of asteroids and eruptions of super volcanos. Both have struck the Earth in the past and there is a chance that both may threaten life again.
Official Olympic branding is so ubiquitous it seems as if every possible product - from phones to TVs - has a London 2012 counterpart. Now you can ...
Hundreds of anti-GM protesters gathered near a scientific research centre on Sunday where a genetically modified wheat crop is being grown. Members...
Love classically music, or did you never quite get into it? The London Science Museum has injected a philharmonia orchestra with a jolt of tech, to cr...
They study weather and climate, help you text your mum when you'r abroad and now even North Korea have one. Satellites are the orbital gadget bundles ...
How well do you think you can ever know other people? The complete map of the human genome, every chemical twitch that makes up our collective DNA, me...
Then sun shrank to a thin ring of fire on 21 May, during a magnificent annular solar eclipse. The full eclipse was spotted over China, Japan and th...
String physicists assume that energetic pieces of threads are the keys to quantum gravity and to everything else of our perceived reality throughout the universe. The basic elements of this theory are "strings" or membranes, i.e. subatomic one-dimensional energy threads and built areas.
An underwater turbine destined to form part of a major green energy project is already using tidal power to produce electricity for homes on a remote ...
A solar-powered bionic eye prosthetic has been unveiled by scientists. The high-tech prosthetic will have high pixel density and is a revolution i...
Sir Konstantin Novoselov, the scientist who discovered the "wonder material" graphene with colleague Sir Andre Geim, will be knighted today. The No...
CLICK TO ENLARGE Electric car use is growing in the UK. But where the devil do you find a car charging point, and how much is it to have one inst...
