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If scientific developments kept pace with science fiction imagineers we’d be living in a world of intergalactic space travel, teleportation...
Pain has arisen as part of human evolution because the sensation increases our survival rate. It protects us from danger...
In London this summer, August the 20th passed in the usual blur of urbanised flurry; tubes were packed with the...
It was while lying in the MRI scanner, slightly impressed at my lack of claustrophobia and seriously reconsidering my chances...
Last month, nitrous oxide (also known as ‘laughing gas’, or for some reason, ‘hippy crack’) emerged as the second most...
There is no doubt that smoking is harmful. Tobacco is thought to kill nearly 6 million people every year, but...
The Cheltenham Science Festival is a time when the country's top scientists come to hang out with festival goers in a relaxed...
Every year teams of scientists gather in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to build machines from synthetic life. So far the International Genetically...
“Tweeting”, “liking”, “tagging” – just a few years ago, these terms would have been alien to us. Today, they are...
Why can’t a high-performance laptop be the size of a tablet? Or a smartphone the size of a pager? What...
Since it featured on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, The Royal Society’s Parliamentary Pairing Scheme has seen increased media attention,...
At 03:32 on 6 April 2009, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale devastated the Italian town of L’Aquila....
With the summer coming to a close, your mind might be starting to wander onto more wintery thoughts. For some,...
Dead fish after an overflow event. Image: Thames Anglers Conservancy. There once was a time when the Thames was teeming...
Innovation is valuable; that’s why the government places such great emphasis on it in their plan for economic growth. Usually,...
We can all admit to being, on occasion, slaves to our emotions. But what if we could medically alter and...
Residents lead the way in restoring the River Wandle Bright and early on a June weekend morning, volunteers in a...
The phrase ‘out of Africa’ has become synonymous with the concept of early primate - and by extension, human -...
In many ways, the Rio+20 Earth Summit held in Brazil last June was a flop. After 3 days of debate,...
Julian Huppert MP Decisions about science that affect our lives are being made by people with little knowledge of those...
The Summer 2012 issue of I, Science took a look at perception, discussing senses and their limitations. However, one sense...
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the cinema to watch The Amazing Spider-Man. When the words “DNA” and "recombination" popped up...
Despite it being July, and officially British summer time, it still feels like October. This is the wettest summer in...
Karin Valencia is a PhD student in Imperial's DNA Topology research group. The term ‘DNA structure’ may bring to mind...
Do models that claim to be able to predict crime open the door to smarter policing, or just reduced policing?...
Sacha Thorpe speaks to metal-detecting enthusiasts and archaeologists, people hoping to understand the ghosts behind the ancient objects dug up...
A trial of contactless image manipulation is giving surgeons more control In an operating room at St Thomas’ Hospital in...
Map of scientific collaborations Guest contributor Julie Gould celebrates the Internet's Golden Jubilee. There have been significant leaps in our...
There has been much media attention recently over the extent of ‘land grabs’ for agriculture, or the ‘foreignisation of space’...
