I’m surrounded by pictures of my favourite foods: ice creams, biscuits, burgers. But why do I suddenly feel much less...
Event review
Tom Stoppard’s first play in nine years is a story of neuroscience and philosophy, altruism and egotism. We meet Hillary,...
95% of the stony coral in the oceans will be gone within less than 50 years unless we act now....
Connie Orbach writes: In 2050 the effects of climate change are being felt globally and it has finally made its...
Andy Franzkowiak, artistic producer of LAStheatre and The Enlightenment Cafe talks about his new immersive theatre event appearing in Docklands ...
New Atlantis is the latest Enlightenment Cafe immersive theatre project of LAStheatre. Running next week from 19-25th January 2015 at...
Do animals have culture? Can we see evidence of tradition in their lifestyle? If so, how has this benefited them?...
What is consciousness? Who or what is the 'me' that I call my 'self'? And does that 'self' control what...
Parkin'Son at The Place, 24 November 2014 Two men - one mid-60s, one mid-30s - on stage for an hour....
For the first time in history, this 24th October 2014 the Royal Institution (Ri) opened its doors for an adults-only...
The Royal Institution’s second Science-Fiction-Friction! show, a live comedy show about science fiction and science fact, was a little bit...
The annual Battle of Ideas at the Barbican took place over a weekend in late October and included around 80...
Earlier this month a host of funny, engaging, inspiring and brilliant women scientists and science communicators descended on Imperial College...
The Cosmic Gallery: The Most Beautiful Images of the Universe Giles Sparrow Quercus (2013) Some stories can’t be told with...
This is the second in our mini-series of reports from the 2013 Cheltenham Science Festival. In this post, Tasch Mehrabi reviews...
A natural splendour ascends from the shimmering glacial sea. Streams of sunlight cast a royal glow upon its majestic form,...
From the rise of appealing TV personalities like Brian Cox to the quirky Festival of the Spoken Nerd, embracing your...
A picnic is a most idyllic excursion for a summer’s afternoon. Dining outdoors, serenaded by the medley of chirping crickets...
Africa, the BBC’s most daring and technologically advanced nature series to date, gave millions of viewers an insight into some...
The future of science that Prof Muki Haklay, of the Extreme Citizen Science group, laid out in his lecture will...
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely...
When Professor Adrian Bird received the GlaxoSmithKline prize for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences it drew a big...
Gavin Davies, professor and long-time researcher in the field of physics, presented his inaugural lecture to an eager audience. After...
The aim of the talk The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure was, in Neil Shubin's own words: "to investigate the...
Could Mathematics hold the key to predicting the future? According to Professor Dan Crisan, possibly yes. During his inaugural lecture...
Imperial College hosted this evening of top performance poets reciting verse on mental health. Each performer had either suffered...
Tucked away downstairs in the Science Museum, Chrome Web Lab, an interactive series of exhibits by Google, is a hands-on...
We have all suffered the unpleasant sensation of pain, whether it’s caused by the intense throbbing of a stubbed toe...
On Wednesday 16th January, Alanna Orpen went to see the historian, writer and broadcaster, Dr. Louise Foxcroft, talk about her...
The Signs, Symbols, Secrets: an illustrated guide to alchemy exhibition at the Science Museum was born from the discovery last...
