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Talking Science
Information and links to the latest ideas in science communication in the UK - of interest to science journalists, science museum and science centre staff, science festival organisers and performers, and scientists who wish to develop their skills at communicating with a wider audience outside the scientific community.
specialisms articles
Do you use specialist English? English for technology, medicine or the social sciences, for example? If so, come here and learn English through your own interests or specialism.  We have articles on some of these subject areas and will be adding more. If you would like to suggest an article, please do using this form.

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Arts: Archaeology
Conservation and restoration
Read about an imaginary World Heritage Site to introduce you to the vocabulary of ancient remains.  Listen to a young archaeologist describing a dig that she worked on.

Arts: Architecture
Trends in architecture
From signature buildings to the designs of the new urbanists, the trends in architecture today are wide-ranging, in style, materials, aesthetics and practicality.  Find out more ...

Arts: Art
Curating museums
What is a museum curator?  Is it someone who spends all day in the dusty cellars of our museums, studying and organising ancient collections?  Or maybe today the curator sits at their computer all day and compares collections around the world.

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Engineering: Chaos theory
Chaos, uncertainty, butterflies, mathematics, meteorology - what do they have in common?  Read about the basics of chaos theory and listen to an economist explaining the influence of chaos theory on her work.

Engineering: Engine design
What happens when the field of evolutionary biology meets the world of car racing? Read an article which explores an unusual way to design a faster car, and listen to a racing driver give his opinion on racing today.

Engineering: Telecommunications
Mobile telecommunications technology is advancing at an amazing speed. Mobile phones that incorporate video images are now common , as is accessing the Internet on your mobile.  

Engineering: Weather Toaster
Robin Southgate as part of his final year industrial design project at Brunel University, London designed a ‘Weather Toaster’ but what is a ‘Weather Toaster’?  Read about it.

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Maritime English
Maritime English - English for people connected with the sea.  Read about the uses and origins of Maritime English and listen to a former Merchant seaman, talking.

Medicine: Allergies
Many people observe that they seem to suffer more from allergies - or suffer allergies to more things - as they get older.  But is age the governing factor or is it just that there are more allergies around today?  Are we really getting less resistant to allergens?

Medicine: Medical ethics
Scientific discoveries in the field of medicine, like cloning, have brought great benefits but also pose highly controversial ethical problems, not least to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Social Science: Social science and economics
Find out about different trends in Europe as our articles explore why many young British graduates are considered part of the "Boomerang generation", and how home-ownership in Spain has changed over the years.

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Teaching: Teaching English
How can English teachers provide a stimulating, fun and enriched environment for their learners, especially for their younger learners? Read an article which explains how teachers can make the most of the time inside the language classroom and listen to a teacher trainer give suggestions on how to make the most of pair work activities.

Tourism: Airlines
Over the last couple of years in Europe and the US the number of passengers has increased dramatically. Learn about developments in the area of baggage handling.

Tourism: Ethical tourism
The move towards 'responsible consumerism' with fair trade products now available is leading to a new form of tourism as people also look for holidays that do not have damaging effects on developing countries.

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