The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media still providing a platform for a discredited scientist?

On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Responsible for nearly 30 million deaths, HIV can, at the very least, be regarded as a very successful pathogen.

Is musical preference a representation of self-expression or a function of education and exposure?

For me, the past month can be summed up in one word; infiltration. Horse meat has infiltrated our food chain and, more worryingly for me, rogue ‘facts’ seem to have made their way into otherwise trustworthy sources of information.

Scientists take to Twitter to reveal the hilarious truth behind their not so scientific methods...

The era of humanity’s presence in space is entering a new dawn. Until now we have looked to the heavens with wonder in our eyes – now it seems as though some of that wonder has been replaced with pound signs.

Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety of 2012 in space?

The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.