Following on from last month's exploration of external factors inhibiting the scientific enterprise, I thought it would be equally inte...

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

A recent report here in New Zealand has raised some interesting issues around data interpretation and the need for independent analysis to m...

Recent surveys around the world suggest the public feel they don't receive enough science and non-consumer technology news in a format t...

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

One of my earliest blog posts  concerned the media circus surrounding two of the most famous scientists alive today: British physicist Steph...

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...

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

I recently saw a billboard for the Samsung Galaxy SIII advertising a competition to win a "trip to space", in the form of a suborb...

With the start of a new year it seems appropriate to look at how our perception of the universe is created via language - after all, there...

There was a time not so long ago when the defining attributes of famous British scientists were little more than a white coat, wild hair, an...