McCabism

It seems that enlightened self-interest has worked its magic, and the Formula 1 teams' association (FOTA) have reached a compromise sett...

Biologist Martin Heisenberg writes an article for Nature which purports to address the issue of free will, but ultimately does nothing of t...

Today, between fields of luminous rapeseed, I drove up to Oxford to see Peter Byrne deliver a talk on the life of Hugh Everett III , the in...

Midnight in a subterranean laboratory straddling the Swiss-French border. Father Vaux Vectra is alone at his desk, transfixed by the image o...

You're Jenson Button, and you have a secret. You have a type of knowledge which the Greeks referred to as a techne , a special skill, wh...

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite is due to launch from French Guiana on May 14th. Pending a successful deployment, Planck w...

Marcus du Sautoy , the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, makes an attempt in The Times...

Of all the cosmological models proposed in recent years, perhaps the most ingenious is Roger Penrose's conformally cyclic cosmology . Pe...

After dominating the recent Chinese Grand Prix, a race run in treacherously wet conditions, Red Bull designer Adrian Newey was asked by Auto...

The first genuinely warm day of Spring. The Sun opens up the landscape into a buzzing, multi-hued repository of beauty and intricately detai...

Environmental Graffiti recalls some of the commercial products of the early 20th Century which, (perhaps unwisely), extolled the medicinal ...