Planning a scientific expedition, identifying a mystery species and watching spiders getting it on were among the many interactive experiences on offer at the Natural History Museum’s new Darwin Centre, which opened to the public today. The new £78 million centre is home to the…

What is the future of peer review, and should it detect fraud and misconduct were just a few of the questions tackled at a talk at the British Science Festival on Tuesday. At the session Science Fact or Science Fiction: Should Peer Review Stop Plagiarism,…

Two rival models of how life on Earth continues to exist thrashed it out on Saturday at Royal Holloway University as part of the British Science Festival. In the red corner was Dr David Wilkinson of John Moores University with the Gaia concept, the theory…

Why do journalists love stupid equations? That’s the question popular science writer Simon Singh posed on Sunday to a packed lecture theatre at the British Science Festival. The author of the best-selling maths novel Fermat’s Last Theorem discussed the tenuously contrived equations dreamt up by…

Surrey’s skies were a source of fascination yesterday night, as astronomers of all skill levels gathered at the University of Surrey’s Varsity Centre in Guildford for The Great Look Up. The event, organised by the university itself together with the Guildford Astronomical Society to commemorate…

Arming myself with a pair of stocking-filler binoculars and a waterproof, I think I’m all set for The Great Look Up tomorrow night. More than 250 people so far are expected to turn up to the event in Guildford, run by the University of Surrey…

Galaxy collisions, solar flares and creatures which live on “frozen fart gas” – just a few topics covered in the Your Universe festival at University College London (UCL), run for the first time this year and which ended yesterday. Through a series of free talks…