In a nice piece on his Scientific American blog 'Cross-Check', John Horgan recently gave me some much appreciated praise, whilst provoking discussion on a contentious subject - whether or not big ...

All of the 2022 Nobel Prizes have now been announced. Here's a look at which prizes have been announced so far, which is coming up and what's next for the winners. Lead researcher Dr. Milo Barham, ...

The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes on an editor-in-chief role in her latest book ...

Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Psychological science is really just our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the ...

Researchers have proposed a "missing" scientific law for the evolution of life, minerals, planets, stars and pretty much everything else in the universe. This new law identifies "universal concepts of ...