Stalls at this Imperial Fringe event included artistic entomology, robot dancing and the neuroscience of juggling …

Thea Powell from the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop) on ape and cat conservation projects in Borneo rainsforests …

As a chilly winter comes to a close, find out more about the fascinating properties of ice …

Is the soul independent of the mind? How does matter produce consciousness? New book by Stephen Cave could provide the answers …

The play ‘Constellations’ applies the multiverse theory to a love story. Imperial College’s Professor Mike Duff was recruited to explain the concept …

This week’s ‘Nature’ podcast looked at CellTex’s decision to flout stem cell regulations, while the Imperial College podcast hosted Brian May …

The banquet of delicacies at fringe event ‘A Feast for the Sciences’ included white chocolate candles and CO2 sorbets …

Professor Chris Stringer, an anthropologist from the natural history museum, talks to Graihagh Jackson about his life’s research on human evolution. Chris revolutionised his field with his out-of-Africa theory …

New exhibition ‘Extinction: not the end of the world’ opens today at the Natural History Museum. Julie Gould went along to explore and chat with the organisers …

Food security is a pressing issue with over 1 billion people today suffering from Chronic hunger. But the technology and techniques are being developed to combat it …

How has death been viewed across continents and through centuries? Andy Roast headed to the ‘Death: A self-portrait’ exhibition at the Wellcome Collection to learn more about …

Cases of childhood asthma fell by 12.3% in the first year after the July 2007 smoking ban and have continued to fall since. Stephanie McClellan talked to Anthony Laverty from …

Imperial College hosted this evening of top performance poets reciting verse on mental health. Each performer had either suffered mental health problems or been affected by the suffering of someone close …

In ‘Scientists In The Pub’ Andy Roast talks to researchers about their latest work. This episode features Dr Suze Kundu on splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and the science of cocktails …

The emotions associated with a young child’s attachment to a parent could be reprogrammed by treating parts of the brain like a computer. Professor Abbas Edalat from Imperial College’s Department of Computing is using John Bowlby’s attachment theory to find new methods of therapy that help to repair psychological damage suffered during upbringing. Professor Edalat set […]

The Winter 2012/2013 issue of ‘I, Science’ Magazine is about to be released. The theme is morality in science and the magazine includes articles such as NASA’s new ambitions, …

Loneliness – is it all in the mind? According to a recent paper co-authored by Dr Bahador Bahrami at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; the answer is yes. Max Sanderson caught up with …

Our little blue planet is dying. For decades scientists have been warning of the potentially fatal affects of pollution, global warming and deforestation. Yet, we all continue to consume unsustainable quantities of …

In a year that saw a record-breaking four issues of I, Science published as well as the I, Science website nominated for the Guardian student website-of-the-year award, we reflect …

Cosy Science event on the psychology of crowd behaviour: Everyone’s familiar with that classic Dad’s Army quote: “Don’t Panic!” Of course, when the phrase is applied to real-life situations …

The Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is currently running at the Natural History Museum. It showcases the very best images of the natural world in an amazing backlit cinematic display. The 100 award winning images on show have been selected from 1000’s of international entries. Winning pictures are chosen above all for […]

Estimated at 93 billion light years in diameter, the cosmos is everything we see when we tilt our attention to the night sky and much more. The history of measuring and theorising on space is the subject of an exhibition Cosmos and Culture currently showing at the Science Museum, London. The cosmos was also the […]

The Natural History Museum hosts Nature Live events most afternoons in the Darwin Centre and at a recent Nature Live, rainforest researcher Dan Carpenter talked about his work in the rainforests of Borneo. I, Science’s Graihagh Jackson caught up with him and asked about the biodiversity hotspot that’s home to the orangutan.    

We find out what on earth a ‘science-lifestyle’ magazine is by chatting with the founder of Guru magazine…

In ‘Scientists In The Pub’ Andy Roast talks to researchers about their latest work. In this episode he interviews Dr Duncan Casey about cancer diagnosis on a single cell level …

Representation of scientists in parliament is low with just one parliamentary seat taken by a scientifically trained MP. Does this make a difference? Should there be more? …

Imperial Fringe event Cutting Close To The Bone is happening this Thursday, November 29th. It will include a number of stalls set out in the College Main Entrance by Exhibition Road. I, Science’s Natascha Mehrabi found out about event preparations by talking to participant Dr Alexandra Porter about her work on bone grafts at the […]

The Cell Cycle is the process by which cells grow and then divide to form new cells. This cell division happens throughout our bodies; from the production of new blood cells in our bone marrow to the generation of new layers of skin cells. In this video we talked to Professor Peter Burgers about his work on […]

A Bloody Mary: what more could you want one cold November afternoon? They’re deliciously equipped with tomato juice, a splash of Tabasco and vodka; but at St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum there was a twist on the traditional mix. Bacon was delicately floated in the beverage to create the suitably named cocktail, Charred Remains. And that […]

The UK government has caused controversy in the farming, science and public communities by announcing that the proposed cull of badgers in the UK will be postponed until the summer of 2013. Badger numbers are estimated at between 250 – 300,000 and in 2011 alone 34,000 British cattle were killed due to the spread of […]