The story of how Public Engagement with Science (PES) has become a day-to-day task for 21st century scientists …
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Inspire PGCE
The Imperial College Outreach Office tells us how their programme will help inspire the future generations of scientists …
Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry feels structural biology has a thrill of exploration similar to climbing Everest or reaching the South Pole …
Forget UFOs
Forget your UFO hunting and exoplanet probes; why we shouldn’t be searching for alien life at all …
The what particle?
For something so hard to find, the Higgs boson has been absolutely everywhere for the last few years. But most people still ask: “What exactly is it?” …
Developing world DIY
Leaving behind expensive equipment and industrial laboratories, Do-It-Yourself science can do just as much to help developing nations …
World of epigenetics
Epigenetics questions the notion that genes are the only inherited information and could lead to acquiring superhuman abilities …
Interdisciplinarity
Growing interdisciplinarity in both in scientific research and academic study brings new opportunities …
Armand Leroi
Find out how this Imperial College Professor has been bringing his expertise to the wider world …
Goggle vision
The world below the waves came into focus with the invention of the humble swimming goggles …
Jurassic Park or Noah’s Ark?
Conservation has started to turn to more drastic measures to preserve endangered species …
SHOCK Physics
If you ever wondered what happened to the mad scientists building rockets out of tin cans and blowing up their laboratories …
Self-experimenting scientists
From HG Wells’s Invisible Man to Sir Isaac Newton, what motivates scientists to become their own experimental guinea pigs? …
Six ‘creative’ DIY inventions
Ingenious homemade inventions with neither functional nor practical application – from cheese-controlled cars to machete-shooting slingshots …
Illuminating materials science
Imperial College PhD student Zoltan Hiezl describes his experiences in the field of materials science …
Inspiring female scientists
Women throughout the ages have helped to shape our understanding of science. Here are six of the most influential …
Schoolboy Astronomer
Margaux Calon explains how a schoolboy, at only 15-years-old, made a discovery that could shake the very foundations of astrophysics …
A Peek at the Pairing Scheme
Since it featured on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, The Royal Society’s Parliamentary Pairing Scheme has seen increased media attention, not all of which has been positive. Alex Smith, a sociologist at the University of Warwick, questioned the credibility of the scheme in an article on the Making Science Public blog. This was recently republished […]
Interview with an Astrobiologist
This article is taken from the Winter 2011 issue of I, Science. Jennifer Whyntie talks to astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell about what got him started, Conan the Bacterium, skywhales, and how he balances science outreach with his research. Lewis Dartnell is a research fellow at UCL’s Institute of Origins, having done a PhD in astrobiology and […]