Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

Eldon Garden shopping centre in Newcastle is now a shell of boarded-up shops. Credit: Alamy On my lunchbreak I often find myself wandering through Eldon Garden, a shopping mall in central Newcastle.

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.

Martin Cohen is a British author. His most recent book is "The Ah-ha Moment: Exploring Philosophical Ideas through Jokes and Puzzles" ...

Paul Davies is a cosmologist and best-selling author who chairs the Post-Detection Taskgroup for SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In 2006 he founded Beyond: Center for Fundamental ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...