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Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…

The climate change secretary denies that controversies over scientific data have undermined efforts to tackle global warming.

Charles Taylor shows how faith and scientific progress both require leaps into the unknownIs science closer to religion than is typically assumed? Is religion closer to science? Might rational enquiry, based on evidence, share similarities with faith? These questions were raised by Charles Taylor, the distinguished Canadian philosopher, speaking at a Cambridge University symposium (pdf). [...]

After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during t…

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Mobile devices such as Apple’s iPad are providing new platforms for enjoying the crown jewels of space imagery. Check out some of the brightest gems.
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Experts say their research does not undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change, but call for ‘closer examination’ of the way computer models consider water vapourScientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes, according to a new study that could fuel further attacks on the science of climate [...]

Art and science come alive in HeuschreckenTypically science doesn’t bed down with theatre, much less mate with artistic vigor, but the accord between the two is explored in the recent production Heuschrecken [The Locusts] developed by Stefan Kaegi of R…

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they’ll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion this year.
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Image Caption: This set of scientific fields show the major shifts in the last decade of science. Each significance clustering for the citation networks in years 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 occupies a column in the diagram and is horizontally connected t…