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Purple and green surgeonfish swimming in dark water

Date: 15 August 2018 - 13:44

How one woman built a career as a science journalist

Bhavya Khullar is a science journalist based in Delhi. She talks about how to find a story, approach an editor and build a career.

Tags: Science

Woman dancing in striped dress in front of window

Date: 26 October 2017 - 11:20

Two insider views on how Brexit will affect UK arts

Manick Govinda of UK arts producing organisation Artsadmin is an advocate for the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Artsadmin founder Judith Knight takes the opposite view.

Tags: Arts

'We may reach a point where artificial intelligence could become too advanced.' Image (c) Tomasz_Mikolajczyk, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 28 September 2017 - 10:00

Have robots taken over the world?

Are we already too late to save ourselves from our robot overlords? Engineer and Bulgarian FameLab 2017 contestant Veselin Rusinov weighs in.

Tags: Science, Scientific research, Technology

Date: 27 September 2017 - 14:05

What’s life like on an international space station?

The European Space Agency's Professor Mark McCaughrean explains, among other things, what ‘international’ means when you put this word in space.

Tags: Science, Scientific research, Technology

'The rise in ocean acidity levels is causing clown fish larvae to lose their ability to tell which are the best habitats for them to settle.' Image (c) nile, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 18 September 2017 - 20:02

How do fish talk to each other?

There are more than 230,000 species of marine life in our ocean. So how do they communicate? We asked FameLab finalist and marine chemical ecologist Dr Mahasweta Saha.

Tags: Science, Scientific research

Date: 16 January 2017 - 10:12

Bernardine Evaristo: 'Books expand our imaginations'

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.

Tags: Literature, Arts

'The more I took the journey of transition, the happier I felt as an actor and performer.'

Date: 09 December 2016 - 15:30

Jo Clifford: 'I see writing as a way of resisting prejudice'

We asked playwright Jo Clifford to tell us about her creative process and how her experience of transgender issues has influenced her writing.

Tags: Theatre, Arts, Equal opportunities and diversity

'My poems are concerned with many different things, from local realities to the personal'. Image (c) Peter Hershey, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 07 November 2016 - 03:26

A brief introduction to the poetry of Burma

We asked Maung Day, Burmese poet and writer in residence at Edge Hill University in the UK, about poetry in Burma today, and the influences on his own writing.

Tags: Arts, Literature

'The costs are going down, but the sophistication of the technology is going up.'

Date: 03 November 2016 - 16:14

Could your mobile phone make you healthier?

Can a smartphone app really diagnose your symptoms? We asked Dr Patricia Mechael, a 2016 Education UK Alumni Award winner, to explain the latest innovations in mobile health.

Tags: Education, Science

Photo of English channel (c) NASA, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 08 July 2016 - 15:37

What did Europe mean to Shakespeare?

Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.

Tags: Shakespeare, Arts, Theatre, Literature

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