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GIANT FLYING MONSTERS! No, seriously. As part of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations, there’s a festival of arts and science on London’s Southbank this summer, See Further. I’ve already talked about Icarus at the Edge of Time, and will be participating in a Cafe Scientifique event discussing the history of scientific conversation on Monday…

Without the help of the rest of the team, defending against a penalty kick is arguably one of the hardest tasks faced by soccer goal keepers. But new research shows that the kicker’s body movements may betray its intention, hinting to the goalie which direction the ball is about to go in enough time to…

In just under a month, the World Cup tournament will reveal which country boasts the best soccer skills. But Lu

I am not thinking up a witty title, because I’m in a state of shock. I’ve just seen on Twitter that a paediatric urologist going by the name of Dix Poppas, at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is systematically cutting the clitoris of prepubescent girls, allegedly to reduce them to a ‘normal’ size. He…

Looming budget cuts are set to wipe out whole research groups at the Natural History Museum, but a concerted effort from the community may yet save them. The ongoing financial crisis, and the determination of the new coalition Government to tackle it, undoubtedly signal hard times to come for science in Britain. Professor Brian Cox…

Researcher papers written by scientists in the United Kingdom are cited almost as highly as papers written by their American counterparts. So says a new analysis done by Thompson Reuters for Times Higher Education (THE). The survey ranks Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the United States on the average number of citations…

What do you get if you mix 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints?

According to a nicely executed bit of investigative reporting by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tom Insel, director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), helped secure a new job for a longtime colleague who had run afoul of conflict of interest disclosure rules for National Institutes of Health grantees at his home institution.

Scientists get lonely too, you know. And with all those late nights in the coldroom, time-points at oh dark hundred, and skipped lunches and dinners because you have to get this PCR on before the seminar starts, it’s difficult to meet that special him or her. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of…