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2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons

Part One: Scientific Citizens. In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. We are increasingly turning to government and the media to explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, Martin Rees calls ...

The Fight Of The Honeybee

A bee-less world wouldnt just mean the end of honey Einstein said that if the honeybee became extinct, so then would mankind.

Wild Britain: Week 2. The best of the Woodland Trust's sites

In centuries gone by, you had to be very wealthy to look on woods as we do now, and see them as only a place of pleasure. Instead, they would have been where you gathered firewood, nuts, and berries; let your pigs forage; collected herbs and plants for your medicines; feared to travel alone; and where, because you knew little of the wider world, you believed strange sprites and spirits lived and ...

Bees: Get a buzz out of nature's little helpers

Ideas for for plants and shrubs to have in your garden that keep your bees busy and productive.

Malaria, the killer that won't go away

The Fever: How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years by Sonia Shah is a diverse survey of the past and present career of a formidable killer