For the first time, scientists at Manchester University, UK, have been able to measure the amount of happiness in the world, and have come to a remarkable conclusion: There is a certain level of background happiness that doesn't fluctuate.
"A numb...
In his last key note speech as a serious scientist, before academia renounces him as a television personality, Professor Brian Cox will explain how String Theory can explain everything.
"String is amazing," said Oldham-born Cox. "The universe isn'...
NASA's global gravity survey satellite launched last month has revealed why Americans and the British are classified as becoming more obese than other nations, while continents like Africa have more skinny people.
"They have mapped in fine detail...
London - Fears about aliens' supernatural mind-reading powers may be behind a 'daft' BBC edict banning any search for extraterrestrials on the Stargazing Live show.
Presenter Brian Cox and comedian co-host Dara O'Briain were looking forward to pro...
Two years after being demoted to the status of "interesting asteroid" Pluto may regain the title of planet after a fourth moon was found orbiting the distant object.
Pluto was not spotted until 1921, and was thought to be planet sized due to it's...
In theoretical physics and cosmological circles there has been a good mannered debate raging for several decades over what is holding all the matter in galaxies together.
"It's quite simple," said Brian Cox, presenter of The Sky At Night. "When we...
Space, according to Douglas Adams at least, is big. Very big. But what does Douglas Adams know? Cosmologists already know it's so much bigger than that. What they didn't know was what colour space was.
They know it smells of fish and tastes of roa...
A government report on education in the UK, published today, draws radical, new conclusions about the causes of the apparent decline in educational standards.
'It had become established wisdom that young people were becoming more stupid,' explaine...
TV space egghead Brian Cox is in more trouble today after a small west country town was devastated by a spate of burglaries last night.
The crimes were committed during a town-wide black-out, co-ordinated as part of Cox's three-night BBC2 astronom...
TV space boffin Brian Cox has been given a "rocket up the arse" by BBC bosses for urging members of his audience to change channels.
Cox was presenting the second episode in BBC2's three-night astronomy spectacular Stargazing Live with Irish comic...
BBC viewers under the age of five were sent into an excited state of shock last night after realising that this years' series of Stargazing live is being presented by Shrek and Donkey.
The realisation was made by a 3 year old boy called Josh on...
London's astronomers are over the moon at the announcement that the London Borough of Ealing has been declared an International Dark-Sky Reserve.
'London is an international centre of excellence for numerous endeavours,' explained Mayor of London,...
Almost all of modern physics is simply wrong says a new UK government report written by top academics. They argue that about a hundred years ago physics took a wrong turn and has consequently had to invent more and more bizarre theories to keep the s...
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris today announced that a "leap centimetre" would be added to the length of the metre at midnight on 28th February 2012, to coincide with the addition of an extra day to the year.
'People are...
CERN Scientists are red-faced today when it was revealed that the bumps in the data of the two colliders that were thought to be the Higgs Boson turned out to be somebody dropping a cup of coffee in the analysis lab above the particle accelerator.
Preparations are now underway to ensure the safe journey of the Olympic Flame from the ancient Greek site of Olympia to the Olympic Stadium in London, for the 2012 Olympic Games.
'Many people wonder how the Flame can travel all that way without mi...
Professor Stephen Hawking has given an answer to the question that every scientist on the planet has been asking for the last 24 hours. What are the dark streaks on Mars?
The answer came in response to an e-mail that was sent to PH's Twitter sit...
BBC bosses will be on tenterhooks tonight, waiting for the public's reaction to their re-edited version of Prof Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe.
They have adjusted the show to tone down the sound after complaints from viewers said the music an...