Antipodes

Albert Einstein predicted that gravitational waves would be produced in extremely violent events, such as collisions between two blac...

Emmanuelle Charpentier , born in 1968, is a French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist. Emmanuelle started her studies at the Pie...

The US writer-director Matthew Chapman is the co-founder and president of ScienceDebate.org , an organization trying to get the American pr...

One of the most trashy “news websites” I’ve ever seen is Australian… but I don’t make a point of examining all possible contenders for this ...

The world has learned that the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] was revved up to cruising speed yesterday. My home in France is not far away fro...

An amusing cartoon in a men's magazine shows a doctor examining a poor guy whose face and genitals are covered in ugly red spots. The pa...

When I was a teenager in Australia, a good way of insulting a fellow was to call him a dickhead . I must admit, though, that I never really ...

As an adolescent at high school in Grafton, I studied economics for no more than a year. It turned out to be a disturbing but mind-opening e...

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene is one of the most beautiful and exciting books I've ever read, on a par with the masterpiece...

The futuristic writer Arthur C Clarke died early this morning, at the age of 90, at Colombo in Sri Lanka, where he had been living for over...

Once upon a time, US presidents could be wise men. I'm delighted by this conversation between Abraham Lincoln and a colleague: Abraham ...

Everybody recalls the simple reassuring words of the 23rd Psalm of David, which I prefer in the old-fashioned language of the King James ver...

Does an outspoken Nobel Prize winner such as 79-year-old James Watson —US co-discoverer, in 1953, of the structure of DNA—have the right to ...

Every time I leave the nearby city of Grenoble , to return to Choranche, I drive alongside a vast scientific research zone, snuggled in the ...