“The mayor is unable to grasp the simple idea of appropriateness in context”
There's a time and a place for sexual imagery, and it's not the press conference of a major achievement in science
Bouncing back: new research supports rebound sex
It’s official: the popular belief that people who have been dumped are more likely to have “rebound” sex is true, at least among students.
On trains and privatisation
The British railway system is the biggest example of the failures of privatisation. I’m not old enough to remember the change, but I’m sure the arguments were the same as those touted today for the privatisation of other well-functioning institutions....
The epigenetic revolution
Keir Little on research that redefines our knowledge of inheritance
Why solar cells prefer Adele over Beethoven
Could Miley Cyrus help lower your energy bills?” asked the Daily Mail. The answer: probably not, but ambient noise could increase the efficiency of solar cells, researchers at Imperial College and Queen Mary University of London have found.
The magic of metamaterials
Keir Little talks about Harry Potter, US Defense research and the creation of a new frontier of science with Professor Sir John Pendry
Frozen rainbows and corkscrew lasers
Professor Ortwin Hess speaks to Keir Little about his research
Inside the Collider: a review of the new exhibition
You’re very lucky to see this,” a professor with a bright orange waistcoat and bow tie tells us. “Usually, only scientists are allowed at internal meetings.”
WTH is NaNoWriMo?
Keir Little thinks that you should know
The Torrid State of the Onion
Keir Little on the shutdown of the web’s biggest drug dealership
New form of matter created from photons
The Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms has created “photonic molecules” by binding photons together, as published in Nature last week.
Keir's Summer Science
Keir Little, Science Editor brings you up to date with discoveries happens over the summer