We talk about artistic inspiration all the time – but science demands inspiration too.
- Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realised a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two millennia ago.
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of glass artworks.
Forcing people to separate science and religion can lead to damaging denials of science.
The case for neoclassicism in science.
Robert Grossetête (1170 à 1253) fut l’évêque de la ville de Lincoln, poète et politicien. De nouveaux documents révèlent qu’il fut aussi l’un des premiers à aborder certains phénomènes naturels.
There are no UK universities in the top ten list of institutions that have won the most Nobel Prizes since 2000.
We need to know what ‘good’ interdisciplinary research looks like.
The 13th century polymath Robert Grosseteste was ahead of his time when it came to understanding light, colour and the universe itself.
After several delays, the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills finally published its first strategy for UK science and innovation titled Our Plan for Growth. Strangely for such…
Academics love games. We can’t resist playing them – but the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is our favourite. As the results of the UK’s 2014 assessment of university research are digested, academics…
Bringing together great academic minds and diverse perspectives from different disciplines can transform university research. A recent project at Durham University called “Hearing the Voice” challenges…
In the early days of independent India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty … of a rich country inhabited by starving people.” Would…
A 13th century bishop’s theory about the formation of the universe has intriguing parallels with the theory of multiple universes. This was uncovered by the the Ordered Universe project at Durham University…
The UK Council for Science and Technology recently called on prime minister David Cameron to reassess EU rules on GM crops. Two days later the Observer published an editorial bluntly declaring: “There’s…
The UK is investing less on research and development across both the public and private sectors and remains behind Europe on the proportion of its GDP spent on research, prompting leading academics to…
There is a tired old mantra that periodically echoes along the corridors of Whitehall. It goes something like: “The UK is great at science but poor at turning it into innovation”. Yet since the Conservative…
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