Can we really rely on Forensic Science?
Forensic science has come a long way since the days of Stephen Lawrence, a young man the mystery of whose savage, racist murder in 1993 only reached a conclusion this week. Forensic science now enjoys much higher standards of evidence handling and more sensitive technology, and these advances…
Club Med – But not as you know it…
Britain’s New Fundamental Scientist?
Some readers might remember the London School of Economics’ (LSE) controversial evolutionary psychologist, Satoshi Kanazawa, who is perhaps best known for his blog, the Scientific Fundamentalist. With titles ranging from “Why beautiful people have more daughters” onto “Why all women are prostitutes”, Kanazawa managed to become Psychology Today’s most…
A Space Oddity
Since the re-entry of NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) last September, a number of journalists have written articles which read like the plot summary of Deep Impact. But does returning space debris really pose a threat to us? With around 1,000 operational spacecraft currently in orbit, it’s…






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