A recurring visitor to the Edinburgh Science Festival since its inception in 1989, on Wednesday 5th April Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was joined by Professor Cathie Clarke
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences and remains supposedly available to all were it not for the bright lights of the cities which shutter the iris to
The greatest exploration undertaken by the human race, though no member of that species accompanied them into space, the Voyager probes were launched in the summer of 1977
The laws of physics are universal; it has taken thousands of years to extrapolate them from the evidence of the everyday, but they govern the motion of objects
On the evening of Thursday 13th April, the National Museum of Scotland hosted Professor Sheila Rowan, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Advisor for
Following the success of The Falling Sky, serial writer-in-residence Pippa Goldschmidt sought “an antidote to writing a novel.” To that end, as she explained at the launch party
Science is not a destination, it is a process, an unprejudiced peeling back of the layers of mystery to reveal the truth beneath, and far from the belief
The fields of science and science fiction writing are traditionally looked upon as a male domain, certainly in the majority of those who have achieved a certain level
Lord Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, and former president of the Royal Society, recently attended the Edinburgh International Science Festival, and honoured GeekChocolate with a few moments of
