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How the Nazis were stopped from obtaining "heavy water", an ingredient key in making an atomic bomb.

An opinion piece on the scientific arguments being put forward for 'Brexit'.

Follow Rosie's time with the Naked Scientists in this weekly diary

Death is a terrifying thought to many people: Is the best solution just to become immortal?

Academic pursuit in the search for greater knowledge has always had an uneasy relationship with business. Should...

Everyone can contribute to the work of scientists. Harriet Dickinson explains how you can get involved, and why Science...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

The tale of antiquity's greatest mathematician, Archimedes, leaping from his bath and bustling naked through the...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Simpsons fans will know only too well the opening sequence to the cartoon in which Homer discovers, during his commute...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

So what exactly is linguistics? Is it all about tape recorders, tongue twisters and dropped "aitches"? Or is...

The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a...

Ask anyone who made the world’s best violins and they’ll inevitably answer "Stradivari". But science is...

There are five million new cases of HIV internationally every year, and the virus is second only to tobacco as the...

Although the summer appears to have ended, I thought I would deal with something that provides a perfect opportunity to...

This article illustrates the kind of scientist you might encounter in a lab. Understanding how your colleagues think...

Humans are one of the most formidable species on Earth. How have modern Homo sapiens come to reign over their archaic...

Dr. Barry Gibb, Scientist and Author, Latest Play - MACHINA

Functional imaging (brain scanning) using magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to probe the workings of the...