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Göttingen to Geneva, an interlude | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics Jon Butterworth: Spoiler:I caught my plane
 

Earth will be a 'pale blue dot' in portrait by Nasa's Cassini probe | Stuart Clark Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will take an image of Earth from 1.44bn kilometres away. From there, our planet will look like the expected images of alien earths around other stars
 

Animals know more than you think Emine Saner: Chickens have better numeracy and spacial awareness skills than young children, and pigs use mirrors. Who knew?
 

Video games (for promoting science) | Dean Burnett Dean Burnett: It's time there were video games that actively promoted science
 

Open access inaction | Jack Stilgoe Jack Stilgoe: From time to time, it's important to pause the bureaucratic debate about open access and recognise how stupid scientific publishing is
 

A sick man ponders the etiquette of short-term illness | Dean Burnett Dean Burnett: The appropriate response to contracting a short-term illness is becoming increasingly confusing
 

Has your MP read The Geek Manifesto? | Dr Mark Lorch A year has passed since every MP and Welsh Assembly Member was sent a book extolling evidence-based policymaking
 

Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects | Professor Chris French Chris French: Channel 4 documentary about alien abuduction not only lacked any sceptical voices, its tone was mean-spirited and patronising
 

Technology that traced Osama bin Laden now used to extend life of cakes Hyperspectral imaging to be employed to study deterioration of sponges and cupcakes and prolong their shelf life
 

The government, the Royal Society and the moral imperative of equality | Athene Donald Athene Donald: The Equality Act alone has not proved sufficient to solve the problems of diversity within the scientific workforce
 

George Widener: the incredible life of the man makes art for robots | Alex Bellos Alex Bellos: Cold War spy, homeless dropout and semi-professional gambler, the autistic savant George Widener is now an internationally renowned artist
 

How to discover an antibiotic: a historian's guide | Vanessa Heggie Given our pressing need for new antibiotics, or a whole new class of antibiotic-like drugs, perhaps we ought to try learning lessons from the history of penicillin (it might even help someone win the new Longitude Prize!)
 

Science Weekly podcast: the universe's heart of darkness – dark matter In his latest book Heart of Darkness, astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker explores the cosmological mystery that is dark matter
 

Fairytale of New Physics | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics Jon Butterworth: There seems to be a minor rash of polemic at the moment on the theme "aren't scientists deluded/betraying science/living in fairytale-land"
 

Brian Cox: TV shows inspire a new generation of children to study science
 

Brain's music pleasure zone identified
 

The benefits of hindsight: how history can contribute to science policy | Rebekah Higgitt and James Wilsdon
 

Evidence and education: It's not about Gove v Marx | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
 

Is Dennis Tito planning a manned mission to Mars in 2018?
 

To claim someone has 'Viking ancestors' is no better than astrology | Mark Thomas
 

Scientists sceptical about device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C'
 

Let's take this offline | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
 

Saxon find in Lyminge has historians partying like it's 599
 

What's putting girls off A level physics? | Athene Donald
 

Neil Armstrong obituary
 

X-rays reveal secrets of Roman coins
 

Little Atoms radio show & Sounds of the space shuttle
 

Guitar Zero: my wife says I was "cute but tuneless"
 

Transit of Venus: highlights from the once-in-a lifetime event
 

'Three-parent babies' cure for illness raises ethical fear
 

Is it reality? No, it's Truman Show delusion
 

The Square Kilometre Array: big and lonely
 

How good is the civil service at putting the science into government? | Adam Smith | Talking science to power
 

 

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