Scientists hope that a new map of the earth's lumpy gravitational field will refine models of climate change.

Passion, ego, great parties and betrayal. That's what you need to attract an audience to science on television.

If corporate carbon dioxide polluters don't reduce their emissions, dragging them to court and hitting them where it hurts - in their pockets - may be the only way.

Science journalism students were undeterred by hard words like "magnetosphere" in a BA Festival of Science masterclass.

A metal-tolerant population of super earthworms is able to decontaminate metal-contaminated soil, the BA Festival of Science heard today.

Researchers wanting to understand how epidemics spread have used data tracking the movements of individual mobile phones.

Analysis of teeth from the Bronze Age has shown that people were travelling 100 miles to the Stonehenge site for ritual feasts at that time.

Big Bang has been presenting physics, life, love and the Universe as you've never seen them before.

The BA announces the winners of the perspectives competition - a poster session with a difference.

A Tesco-financed project to relocate Everton Football club to the suburbs of Liverpool will damage the fan experience, the Festival heard on Thursday.

Liverpool's culturally-lead regeneration has sparked a strong sense of pride amongst residents of Merseyside.

Can Buddhist meditation save society from stress, unhappiness and obesity? Just maybe, according to researchers from Liverpool John Moores University.

The key to impress future partners is to stroke them at a speed of 5 centimetres per second for maximum emotional effect.

Over-the-counter food supplements and a minimal amount of exercise can dramatically improve the quality of life for the elderly.

Students who write in science exams that they do not believe in the theory of evolution by natural selection should not be penalised, the BA Festival of Science heard today.

Researchers have found that different parts of the brain sequentially light up in London taxi drivers as they navigate their way to destinations across London.

Performing magical tricks can increase children's confidence and improve their social skills, the BA Festival of Science heard today.

It is possible to stop people becoming terrorists, Professor David Canter of Liverpool University told the BA Festival of Science on Tuesday.

When blacksmiths hammer steel on a forge, they are making use of the properties of steel which resulted in the collapse of the Twin Towers.

Binge drinking affects your memory, makes you more impulsive and more likely to be distracted by alcohol-related things around you, according to research presented this week at the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool.

Crime fiction came face to face with science fact this week as some of the UK's top crime authors met with a group of real-life CSIs, who put fictional forensic science under the microscope, in a sell-out show.

"Values for money", rather than value for money, should be the new focus of food policy in the UK, Professor Tim Lang told the BA Festival of Science today.

A drop of milk in a cup of tea or coffee is an essential part of the morning. It might seem like a simple routine, but the ability to digest milk as an adult is one of the best examples that humans are changing as a species.

The green shimmer of ocean surfaces is a breathtaking spectacle of nature but it may also serve an evolutionary purpose.

Doctors Harry Witchel, Graeme Jones and Mark Lewney transformed themselves into Drs Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll at the BA Festival of Science for a fascinating show about these three passions and the science behind them.

"Bariatric surgery influences the hormonal balance in morbidly obese people," said Batterham. Several hormones influence our feelings of hunger and of 'feeling full.'

Contemporary reforms in science education are failing to inspire pupils because they have copied the humanities rather than promote the core values of natural science.

Scientists have discovered huge fossilised forests hidden underground in US coal mines that reveal how climate change devastated the rainforests of millions of years ago.

Chimps console their friends who have been in a fight, just as small children hug others they see distressed, researchers said today.

How much does opposition to GM rest on the technology, and how much is caused by its current economic, cultural and social baggage?

Dr Jones and his colleagues have discovered that the extent to which we consider 'beautiful' people to be attractive depends on the extent to which they are attracted to us.

How can we tell if someone in a coma can really hear what we're saying? Is it possible to communicate with someone who is completely paralysed but fully conscious? If only we could read their minds...

"How do you know? How can you tell if a robot is conscious, if its emotions are real?" That's the question which intrigues David McFarland. "It's the alien, non-human mind that I'm interested in," he says.

A journey of five billion kilometres that lasted for seven years is revising the traditional view of the formation of the Solar System.

Delivering his Joseph Lister Award Lecture later today, Dr Tim Grant will describe how advances in forensic linguistic research make it possible to identify who has sent certain text messages.

Ahead of his Presidential Address tonight, BA President Sir David King criticised the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) as "shortsighted".

In the year that the BA Festival of Science comes to Liverpool, the Beatles have been the touchstone in the largest-ever international online survey of people's autobiographical memories.

Newby's understanding of exactly how heart attacks are caused has led to a new approach to a drug which would prevent them. Results from laboratory tests of the new concept will be announced in a few weeks' time.

The design of the modern football makes it more susceptible to chaotic behaviour, soccer science expert Dr Ken Brady told the BA Festival of Science on Saturday. 'When the ball leaves Cristiano Ronaldo's foot, we're talking about the physics of chaos.'

The chemical reactions on Titan today may have happened on Earth as our planet formed 4.5 billion years ago, astrobiologist Professor Monica Grady told the BA Festival of Science on Saturday.