Prose and Passion

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the arrest of the Miami Five , and there have been whole-page ads in the papers to draw attention to the...

I don't normally read chocolate wrapping papers, but last week I did, and I found that the inside of my chocolate paper had an interesti...

... according to Oxford University's latest press release . Couldn't agree more, but the estimate of 1200 science blogs worldwide st...

The idea of using chain reactions to create polymers in the test tube is almost a century old (I'm guessing!), so it's intriguing th...

Cellist Natalie Clein has recorded the Elgar concerto, part of which you can hear on her MySpace profile . The CD is out now: and available...

A few reviews of The birds the bees and the platypuses are beginning to appear: Highbeam.com: SciTech Book News (hope this one is ok, have...

I don't want to engage in any flag waving, but I need to get rid of this rant before the year is out, so here it goes: We moved from Ger...

The German research ministry refers to the Large Hadron Collider as Weltmaschine (world machine), but the Royal Society of Chemistry now su...

There was an interesting piece in the guardian last week about an emerging pop musician who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Her stag...

A year ago, researchers sent two species of tardigrades (microscopic animals also known as water-bears) into a low Earth orbit, around 280 k...

I only found out yesterday that there is a " periodic table of videos ", where each of the currently known 117 elements has its ow...

Malaysian frogs of the species Polypedates leucomystax protect their spawn by secreting a protective liquid and whipping it up to a foam whi...