The Royal Institution’s second Science-Fiction-Friction! show, a live comedy show about science fiction and science fact, was a little bit...
Reviews
Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms Peter Atkins Oxford University Press (2013) As a general rule, an author shouldn’t apologise...
It seems that modern physics is in trouble – it has become a mess of free parameters, over inflated theories...
Peter Atkins' new book accompanies the reader into a fascinating tour of chemistry: its core concepts (atoms, ions, molecules, bonds…),...
Kangaroo Dundee begins with the music of heroes, lovers and sunsets. Then: “Deep in the heart of central Australia lives a family...
This fringe event converted the foyer of the academic institution Imperial College London into an interactive adult learning zone for the...
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...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach Oneworld Publications (2013) Only a lucky few have had their arms squeezed...
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts Emily Anthes Oneworld Publications (2013) Dolphins with prosthetic tails, spy beetles...
If you are looking for a variety pack of documentary delight, then look no further than the National Geographic 125...
My testicles, together, weigh about the same as a satsuma. Though I don’t know for sure; with luggage scales it’s...
With two blockbuster movies in five years, the original novels still in the top 100 most read books, and the...
This is the second in our mini-series of reports from the 2013 Cheltenham Science Festival. In this post, Tasch Mehrabi reviews...
A doctor in Texas believes he can cure cancer. And a lot of cancer-sufferers believe he can too. Last week...
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...
The Naked Scientists, from Cambridge University, has been running for ten years on the BBC and is now a reputable...
A picnic is a most idyllic excursion for a summer’s afternoon. Dining outdoors, serenaded by the medley of chirping crickets...
There’s always something weird about magic shows on TV. The camera can all too simply deceive. Sleight-of-lens rather than sleight-of-hand....
With exams looming for many I felt this week, instead of compounding already weary minds with cutting-edge complex science, I’d...
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...
Bang Goes The Theory (BBC 2) set out to find the truth about all things sugar, and in its quest...
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely...
Ben Goldacre’s attacks on pseudoscience in his books Bad Science and Bad Pharma have made him one of the UK’s...
The programmes I watched this week served only to scare. Death is near. Trust nothing. Certainly not a cucumber wrapper....
When Professor Adrian Bird received the GlaxoSmithKline prize for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences it drew a big...
In late February 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced their discovery of the structure of one of life’s most...
