Protestors deliver a petition against the EPSRC's Shaping Capability strategy via a coffin outside Downing Street. This video is part of the series Talking Science to Power on the Guardian website, by Adam Smith.

In December 2011, the UK government announced a new Strategy for the Life Sciences. The document pledged a £180 million catalyst fund to foster a better relationship between scientists in academia and industry experts who ...

On the day I saw the rather excellent film Another Earth, I happened to meet physicist Jim Al-Khalili, so I asked him whether it would be possible for another planet to appear in our orbit. He thinks not.