Since it featured on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, The Royal Society’s Parliamentary Pairing Scheme has seen increased media attention, not all of which has been positive. Alex Smith, a … Read more

Last week, journalist and blogger Paul Raeburn wrote a highly critical piece on a pair of relatively new science journalism awards, calling them ‘junkets’. Alok Jha, science correspondent at The … Read more

This is part of a series of reviews of the sessions held by the Science Communication Group on 13th September, in celebration of 21 years of the Science Communication MSc … Read more

Julian Huppert MP Decisions about science that affect our lives are being made by people with little knowledge of those areas. Should we be worried? Debacles such as Tony Blair’s … Read more

The evidence grows stronger by the day. Most people now accept that it is happening. It could put millions of lives at risk, yet many are still reluctant to act … Read more

Every year, 36,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Having the cancer surgically removed can be a very painful process, both physically and emotionally. One can only … Read more