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Celebrities versus science

March 16, 2012
Celebrity endorsement is worth big bucks – it’s hard to watch TV without seeing a celebrity advertising the latest make up, sports equipment or holiday destination. But what happens when...

Rules for TV scientists

March 15, 2012
Glamorous, sexy and brilliant – the TV scientist of today is an all-round hero, but as our babbler-in-chief Russ Swan has discovered, there are still a few rules even they...

A very strange tail indeed

March 9, 2012
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems that have tested and teased humanity’s love affair with numbers for generations. And it is...

Dr Daniel Müllensiefen on sing-along-able tunes

March 6, 2012
We are the Champions, the 1977 classic from Queen has been named as the most sing-along-able song by scientists, that’s right science has got musicalMusic isn’t normally something we would...

All change

March 1, 2012
If there is one thing that is consistent in this world, it is change. We may be fooled into a sense of constancy by the apparently stationary nature of Earth’s...

Silicone scam

February 20, 2012
Industrial-grade silicon caused a global public-health scare – whose fault is it?The recent public-health care scandal will no doubt have caught your eye – 300,000 women in 65 countries are...

How many Fry are you?

February 15, 2012
Ever wondered how many Fry’s you are? Or how big your house is in RAHs? Perhaps you think your appearance is up to milliHelen levels? This month Russ Swan takes...

Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil

February 1, 2012
Drs Mary Ryan and Amy Cruickshank are in a race against time to save the last remaining intact Flying PencilDuring the Battle of Britain, a German light Bomber – a...

The colour of our galaxy

February 1, 2012
We know a lot about our celestial neighbourhood. The galaxy in which our solar system resides has been the focus of many outstanding minds for many generations.We know, for example,...

Let’s go LEGO!

February 1, 2012
From the earliest recoded traces of human culture, to copy something was considered the highest form of flattery. From a rudimentary cave-painting of the best hunter in the clan, to...

Business or conservation?

January 20, 2012
Welcome one and all to this, your very own 2012! If we seem a little perky for what would ordinarily be a time of year bogged down in the post-party...

CFC replacements are greenhouse gases

January 16, 2012
The Montreal Protocol – which came into force in 1989 – banned or phased out CFCs and HCFCs because they damaged the ozone layer. However a new UN report has...

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