Why Society Needs Astronomy and Cosmology 'One day, Sir, you may tax it': Faraday's prescient quip...
Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but...
Rare and Endangered Languages: Language Documentation and Revitalisation Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at...
Scientists Must Protect and Promote Human Rights: It is Principled and in their Interest National science academy members worldwide, concerned about dozens of unjustly...
The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
Comets - Visitors from the frozen edge of the Solar System Millions of dirty icebergs orbit around the Sun in a...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...