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This morning on the Today program there was an interesting piece on the quality of science journalism. For our non UK audience the Today program is breakfast news and comment show on BBC Radio 4.

In a brilliant example of old technology outdoing its replacement a ho

With the celebrations of the Apollo Moon landings in recent days many people have been discussing the future of manned space travel. I am far to young to have witnessed the Moon landings myself, but everybody I speak to about it talks of the excitement of seeing those grainy pictures of men walking on the moon.

As you may have noticed, the website has gone under a significant redesign over the last few days.

One of the things I often asked when I was at school was "When will we ever use this?"

It was a regular problem for our teachers that often the abstract science and maths we learnt would have little use outside the classroom. However some of it is useful and here I present a case study.