2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons

Part Two: Surviving The Century

Television - a popular mode of communication

The television is a piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which we can watch programmess with moving pictures and sounds. The television was invented by a Scottish scientist called John Loggy Beyard in 1926.

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To take the lift up to the 14th floor of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tower in the heart of Los Angeles is to leave one world and enter another. The rest of the building is full of drab office furniture and, on most of the MGM floors, old movie posters in cheap frames.

All frontline soldiers 'to get psycho-screening in bid to cut combat stress'

Troops leaving the Armed Forces may be put through psychological profiling in a new effort to identify those at risk of developing mental disorders linked to their experience on the frontline. The Secretary of State for Defence, Liam Fox, who has described the impact of mental illness among service personnel as a "time bomb", believes developments in science means more could be done to stop the ...

Trigger rides again

Roy Rogers' iconic horse lives on, stuffed and high-priced. We take a look inside his recent bizarre auction

Rants & Raves: Chelsea's wedding gives economy a boost

Spending $2 million on a wedding is obscene for most of us. But think of the jobs this wedding will provide to the local businesses of New York. The money will flow through the marketplace, and many venders, florists, photographers, wedding planners, etc., will benefit from the [Chelsea] Clinton wedding. More high-profile people and millionaires need to spend in our country to get our markets ...