While science-fiction movies may become more educational if they became science-non-fiction movies, would they still be entertaining?
Professor Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core, in which a team [...]

A manuscript housed by the Royal Society, which was the basis of William Stukeley’s biography of English scientist Isaac Newton, tells the actual story of his realisation of gravity.
After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees… he told me, he was [...]

If you’re up for some heavy duty physics experimenting over the weekend, you might care to try and clock the speed of light using a microwave oven and a… chocolate bar.
Place the chocolate bar (unwrapped) in the microwave oven and heat it up (without moving it) until you can see soft spots forming. If [...]

From 1971, a geologic map of the near side of the Moon.

An explanation as to why the Earth, and the other (smaller) inner planets of the solar system, have not been consumed by the Sun.
It all made sense, except for one tiny problem: this same model also suggested that a little world like Earth shouldn’t exist at all; it (or more precisely, the Moon-size proto-planets [...]

The Center for Cognitive Sciences names the one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century.
Just so you know.

A case for including design among the stem, or core, subjects (the sciences, technology, mathematics and engineering) in higher education programs.
The Design Council’s added value research 2007 showed that companies that used design to add value to their products or services had a higher return than competitors on profitability, turnover and market share. Design [...]

An interesting – and revealing – perspective on the Large Hadron Collider, located near Geneva in Switzerland.
The L.H.C. is not merely the world’s largest particle accelerator but the largest machine ever built. At the center of just one of the four main experimental stations installed around its circumference, and not even the biggest of [...]

Art and Technology in the Early Space Race: documenting the influence of the space race, cold war, plus rocket and arms technology, on the design and illustration of monthly and weekly periodicals last century.
Within the realm of monthly and weekly periodicals, trade publications aimed at working professionals within industry are less examined than their [...]

Scientist turned film maker Alexis Gambis is hoping to change perceptions of his profession through a series of films:
Science is a core element in everything that happens in the world. People are fascinated by it, but intimidated. I think it’s important for films to show who scientists are outside the lab, to portray them [...]