The heat was unbearable. The land was barren. Early homo sapiens dragged his weary feet across the dusty African desert. It was around this time, ninety thousand years ago, that our ancestors experienced a change in fortune. »

Replacing damaged brain tissue with new neurons may have been science fiction just a decade ago. However, UK scientists have done just that by treating brain-damaged rats with neural stem cells. »

New research suggests that humans read faces in horizontal stripes, like a barcode. »

Allow Imperial’s newest DJs to introduce themselves. Colin the astronomer and Seth the science philosopher have set up a radio show dedicated to the fun aspects of science or, as Colin describes it, to “tickle London’s scientific underbelly.”  Capital Science is a radio show with a difference. Projecting live from IC Radio Studio on Tuesday... »

A recent study has shown that biofuel plantations, replacing forests, could take up to 600 years to offset the carbon lost through land conversion. We all know the score by now: the climate is changing; the planet is warming; the ice caps are melting- surely we need to find an alternative energy source to dirty... »