In the news: Monica Grady
When the Beagle 2 probe separates from the Mars Express spacecraft this Friday, a host of British scientists will feel their pulses quicken. Monica Grady will have more reason than most for feeling...
When the Beagle 2 probe separates from the Mars Express spacecraft this Friday, a host of British scientists will feel their pulses quicken. Monica Grady will have more reason than most for feeling...
When the Beagle 2 probe separates from the Mars Express spacecraft this Friday, a host of British scientists will feel their pulses quicken. Monica Grady will have more reason than most for feeling...
A high level of public information literacy will minimise the spread and influence of falsehood, says Tim Blackman
An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.
Conversations at Nasa reveal the words behind every picture of the Red Planet, says Monica Grady
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Artem BakulinInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £446,097Optical control of conductivity in organic- and bio-electronic devicesAward...
A mathematician who led the boycott in the UK of a major publisher over the issue of open access and a vice-chancellor who served on the Browne Review are among the higher education figures...
If Beagle 2 eventually does land on Mars, what signs of extraterrestrial life will it find? Little green men are out but Mars and other planets may well harbour micro-organisms, bacteria or other...
OPEN UNIVERSITY The chance to link his research in microbiology to planetary science has tempted Charles Cockell from the British Antarctic Survey to the OU's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and...
The future of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures hung in the balance this week as Channel 4 suggested this year's would probably be the last it screens and the BBC confirmed that it did not...
Companies alarmed by chemistry closures The recent closure of university chemistry departments threatens to erode the country's role as a centre of medical innovation, UK drugs companies told a...
Lecturers start crucial pay talks Lecturers today began a crunch meeting with employers to try to end a two-month pay dispute that is threatening to delay student graduations. The Association of...
Scientists talk about objects in the natural world that have most touched them in a new series of Seven Wonders of the World, the BBC's bid to challenge popular misconceptions about science and...
Meteorites are fragments of history that can tell us about the beginnings of life itself I work at the Natural History Museum, leading a team of seven scientists, including two students, who...
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AWARDS The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has awarded sums to the following: John Baruch, department of industrial technology, University of Bradford...