Autism – deeper down the rabbit hole

More than 70 years after Leo Kanner first described autism as a behavioural pattern affecting mainly children, research on this...

A scientific approach to Santa Claus visits

Every year since 1982, the BMJ (originally British Medical Journal) has published a special Christmas issue featuring quirky medical research....

Climate change is often described in terms of sea-level changes, changes to commercial farming and the accompanying economic stresses of...

“I’m an Engineer”, and its counterpart “I’m a Scientist”, are two-week long competitions inspiring the next generation of scientists and...

The numbers for 2015 are in and, according to the Office for National Statistics, dementia is now the leading cause...

How much will average temperatures rise by 2100 if humanity does not rein in the use of fossil fuels? The...

Attending the EQUATE Scotland event about Women in STEM and Feminism on 4th November was the perfect way to...

The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa has sparked discussions about how to prevent outbreaks of potentially fatal infectious...

In the depths of Summerhall, the organisation ASCUS Art & Science has been developing the UK’s largest publicly accessible...