- Stuart Clark
When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little did the sailors know that they were witnessing the aftermath of a gigantic solar explosion that had engulfed the Earth. Today, astronomers are still unpicking the consequences of this tremendous event.
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- Chris Smith
Ask anyone who made the world’s best violins and they’ll inevitably answer "Stradivari". But science is undermining the reputation of this great instrument maker whom, it seems, owes his success as much to an attempt at pest control as his craftmanship...
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- Emma Gatti
The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a trance. But science has shown that these trances weren't down to divine intervention - instead they were the result of inhaling noxious gases from nearby geological fault lines...
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- Martin Westwell
A report was published warning that Britain's prosperity will suffer if the government does not come up with new money to help women scientists and engineers back to work after having children.
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- Guy Brandon
The battle between Science and Religion has left us with a choice: faith in God or belief in a rational scientific approach. But how did it come to this and what happened to trying to settle our differences?
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- Martin Westwell
I am organising a public event in Oxford entitled "The Science of Wine Tasting". I thought that people would be really keen but when I mentioned it to a colleague she said, "Well, that'll take all then fun out of it".
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- Martin Westwell
My mother-in-law loathes science and loves science. She loathes science because it is used to bulldoze her opinion-making when she is given no choice but to accept an idea because science says it is so.
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- Mark Lythgoe
Functional imaging (brain scanning) using magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to probe the workings of the brain. But we still cannot explain what love is. In this article Mark Lythgoe argues that we are more than just the sum of our parts.
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- Kat Arney
How can you be sure the wonderful facts and figures we science writers tell you are genuine? Just think about the stories that hit the newspaper headlines - how do we know they are accurate, and that the science is correct?
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- Mary O'Neill
One of the fun things about working in science is the scientific meeting. Lots of free tea and coffee, buffet lunches, an evening of free booze and a lovely dinner. But how to make the most of them?
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