In these dark times, when some moron (sorry, non-believer in scientific evidence) can easily reach large numbers of people on social media w...

The success of mega-budget science experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observato...

I've just finished reading Bryan Sykes' (okay, I know he's a bit controversial) The Seven Daughters of Eve , about the developme...

With Raspberry Pi computers having sold over eleven million units by the end of last year, consumer interest in older technology appears to ...

Although there's an extremely mixed quality to television science documentaries these days (with the Discovery Channel firmly at the na...

Despite the decades of hard work by the likes of Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould etal, there is still an enormous a...

Although there have been science-promoting societies since the Renaissance, most of the dissemination of scientific ideas was played out at ...

With the UK narrowly avoiding France's fate of a triple dip recession, I thought I would bite the bullet and examine some of the economi...

Not being philosophically inclined I was recently surprised to find myself constructing an armchair thesis: it had suddenly dawned on me tha...

A few evenings ago I saw the International Space Station. It was dusk, and walking home with the family we were looking at Jupiter when a mo...

The recent BBC TV series Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey gave me food for thought: although presenter Helen Czerski is a professio...