One of the biggest unknown volcanic eruptions" in the last 500 years has been given new light through the collaboration of Bristol University colleagues from the School of Earth Sciences, PhD student Alvaro Guevara-Murua, and Dr. Caroline Williams, from the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and

Just over a month ago, I knocked up a quick blogpost in response to some of the unpleasant things being said in the immediate aftermath of the tragic suicide of Robin Williams. It was my most popular post to date, with a readership that I’m 99.995% sure I’ll never get again, so many thanks to

Decades ago, when I initially began writing about science, I would often ask the scientist I occurred to be quizzing no matter whether he or she believed in God. (I possibly began reading Richard Dawkins at about the identical time). I stopped performing so fairly quickly, since a surprising

Fleming’s remarks were spot-on. Since the heady days of penicillin’s discovery, an overuse of antibiotics has spawned bacterial resistance to the drugs and threatened to erase decades of success. Every prescription that misses the mark or throws excess drugs at a bacterium gives bystander bacteria

Research in the production of energy from solar cells placed around luminescent materials is not new. Past efforts, however, have yielded poor results – the energy production was inefficient and the materials were highly colored. Now Dr Lunt and his colleagues at Michigan State University have