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This world’s leading prize for popular science writing has this year been awarded James Gleick for The Information, a book which explores the history, meaning and implications of what humans know.
History and English teachers are likely to be more “knowledgeable” and have better degrees than those teaching maths, languages and science, the latest Good Teacher Training Guide suggests.
Colorado police are still grappling with possible motives as to why James Eagan Holmes, a middle-class 24-year-old neuroscience student, may have killed 12 cinema-goers watching a Batman film.
The “big step forward” is the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. Don’t worry – we’re not going try to FactCheck the existence of the “God particle”.
Channel 4 News announces that Tom Clarke is to become the programme’s first ever Science Editor.
The science of the paranormal – how mainstream scientists are testing the claims of psychics and telepaths. Tom Clarke reports.
As scientists cast doubt on one of Einstein’s long standing laws about the speed of light, Channel 4 News looks back at the theories which have been proved wrong over the centuries.
John Yates of the Met Police becomes the second top-level police officer to resign because of the News of the World phone-hacking crisis, as Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
Not all earthquakes produce tsunamis. And the power of a seismic wave as it hits land depends on a whole range of factors. Channel 4 News looks at why tsunamis can be so devastating.
New research suggests the immune system can fight viruses from within healthy cells. Science Correspondent Tom Clarke says the discovery is a “real game-changer” in the fight against the common cold.
Jon Snow
There’s a dramatic Gulf developing between scientists and politicians about cannabis. Today in Birmingham, one of Britain’s most respected drugs researchers, Roger Pertwee, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, is advocating the wholesale decriminalisation of cannabis. In a speech to the British Science association he is saying that present policy is causing more…
Business Secretary Vince Cable suggests to Channel 4 News that taxpayers’ money for scientific research will be cut as part of the government’s drive to reduce the deficit.
Gary Gibbon
The refinement of the government line on “cuts versus investment” got a helping hand from Welsh Secretary Peter Hain today. In an article in the Western Mail, he repeats some of the lines agreed in last week’s Cabinet – including a variation on “the next 10 years can’t be like the last 10 years” –…
The military alert level has been raised a notch by South Korea and the US, signifying what’s deemed a “grave threat” posed by the North’s nuclear sabre-rattling. Its state-controlled news agency, KCNA, said today that “even a minor accidental clash could lead to nuclear war.” I do wish they wouldn’t keep saying this sort of…
We’re joined by Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute.