It’s early days, but a few British universities are beginning to address the need to facilitate cross-disciplinary enquiry between the arts and sciences to broaden minds, enrich learning and prompt effective new thinking. The Broad Vision project at the University of Westminster is an impressive example of just ...

If you have ever played any of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto franchise you will know that cities are the perfect place for virtual reality mayhem. This is clearly something the imagination of photographer Christian Åslund agrees with, and in his recent ‘Honkey Kong’ marketing campaign for Jim ...

A great ad aired during this year’s Super Bowl. It was a surprising ode to atheism, in which the spirits of discovery and wonder were paid their dues.How refreshing to see free thinkers band together and promote the pursuit of knowledge. It is about time common sense got ...

Will Manchester – former capital of the global cotton trade, birthplace of the industrial revolution, and home to the first modern computer – be renowned in the future for its low carbon lifestyles and clean tech economy?That’s the plan. Organisations across Manchester city region are joining forces to ...

An exile Tibetan students sings a patriotic song on the occasion of World Human Rights Day and to commemorate the conferment of 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama, in McLeod Ganj, India, on 10 December 2012. Via Tibet Sun/Lobsang WangyalIt is not only the loss of ...