Building a better battery
07 March 2013A new battery technology provides double the energy storage at lower cost than the batteries that are used in handheld electronics, electric vehicles, aerospace and...
Totalitarianism, violence and the silent majority
06 March 2013The ‘horrifying genius’ of Soviet totalitarianism and its ability to control and quell protest will be examined tonight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum.
Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred
06 March 2013Research discovers that whether a female butterfly will mate with a male depends on the quality of his sex pheromones.
Are we ready to meet ET?
05 March 2013Once only science fiction, astronomers are now finding hundreds of planetary systems beyond our own. Given recent discoveries through space exploration, it is entirely feasible...
Mongolian life stories database launched online
05 March 2013An online database launched today, 5 March, provides an oral history of Mongolia, as told by 600 Mongolian citizens who look back over their lives...
Acts of creativity, audiences and us
05 March 2013A conference in Cambridge next month will explore the notion of performance as a dynamic means of looking at the complex interactions between works of art...
I’ve got two dads – and they adopted me
04 March 2013Research into adoptive families headed by same-sex couples paints a positive picture of relationships and wellbeing in these new families. The study, which was carried...
Re J - Uncertain Perpetrators in Child Protection Cases
04 March 2013In Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9 the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother who had previously been suspected of causing...
The virtual Chopin
01 March 2013One of the greatest composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin, had an irrepressible creative imagination, and his music experienced continual evolution as a result....
History and conspiracy
28 February 2013Available to play back in full, this debate on history and conspiracy touches on the Suez Crisis, Stalin's Russia, the assassination of John F Kennedy,...