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By Martin Dawkins Full article December, 2006
By Boris Johnson Full article December, 2006
Mind your language Full article December, 2006
By Prof Steve Jones Full article 17th January, 2006
By Lord Rees Occasionally, great science has been fine literature as well. Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species' was a best seller, as well as an epochal contribution to science. Its impact on general culture was immediate and profound. But that was an exception. In glaring contrast, the 1866 paper reporting the classic experiments by Gregor Mendel in his monastery garden, was overlooked for decades. It is a scientific tragedy that Darwin never learnt about Mendel's work, which laid the foundations for modern genetics. Full article 13th December, 2005
By Lambert Courth Science is fascinating, science is changing our world and society needs ever more scientists to create better lives for us all. Paradoxically, however, interest in science has been waning - science is dropping down the agenda in schools, universities are finding it harder to attract the best students to science and science companies are asking where their next movers and shakers in research are coming from.. Full article 13th December, 2005
2005 Awards launch article My scientific imagination was first sparked by the wonders of astronomy and the exhilarating concept of space travel. I remember the amazing experience in South Africa... Full Article 8th December, 2004 
2005 Awards launch article There is more than money and a chance to get your name in print on offer from this competition: you could help raise the profile of subjects such as chemistry, engineering, maths and physics... Full Article 8th December, 2004
2004 Awards launch article Mathematics is the universal language. Sir Isaac Newton used it to unite the movements of the heavens with those on Earth. Einstein wielded mathematics to topple Newton's picture of gravity. Full Article 10th December, 2003
2004 Awards launch article EVEN after helping to judge the competition for six years, I can give no simple recipe that will guarantee success for those who enter. But you can boost your chance of glory in the nation's most prestigious science writing competition by keeping a few things in mind. Full Article 10th December, 2003
Attention: the future needs you. Today sees the launch of The Daily Telegraph BASF Science Writer Awards
2003, offering young people cash prizes, the chance to see their work in
print and a trip to America. Top author Fay Weldon explains the
importance - and the excitement - of the awards. New advances so baffle the outsider we see a backlash born of ignorance. Full Article 4th December, 2002
The first cuckoos changed my life Today sees the launch of The Daily Telegraph BASF 2002 Science Writer Awards, offering young people cash prizes, a chance to see their name in print and trips to America. Full Article 12th December, 2001
How to write a winning story The bestselling author and broadcaster Simon Singh launches this year's Daily Telegraph BASF Young Science Writer competition. Full Article 6th December, 2000
How to join an illustrious tribe Matt Ridley, author of Genome, launches this year's Daily Telegraph BASF Young Science Writer competition. Full Article 8th December, 1999
Kill the gerund, slay the adverb, "SCIENCE writing" seems, like "Scottish Amicable", rather a contradiction in terms. To open any journal - the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, say - at once reveals a morass of jargon, a desert... Full Article 8th December, 1999
Help guide us through the universe Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, launches this year's Daily Telegraph BASF Young Science Writer competition. Full Article 2nd December, 1998
Readers need some stick Steve Jones, our distinguished columnist, reveals the secrets of his trade. Full Article 14th January, 1998
Give us your golden nuggets Two leading science writers launch Britain's most prestigious science writing competition, backed by BASF and The Daily Telegraph, Peter Atkins suggests three rules for writing that can popularise any science, even one as tough as chemistry. Full Article 14th January, 1998
If you want to win, ask an expert As The Daily Telegraph's 10th Young Science Writer Awards are launched, Steve Jones meets top essayist Stephen Jay Gould. Full Article 4th December, 1996
As well as science what do you know? Expert advice on how to win the ninth Young Science Writer Awards from astronomer John Barrow. Full Article 15th November, 1995
Want to write? Follow this formula Best-selling author, broadcaster and geneticist Prof Steve Jones launches our cash prize competition to find The Daily Telegraph National Power Young Science Writers of 1995. Full Article 25th January, 1995
A letter to myself, aged 22 Prof Michael Rowan-Robinson reaches across time to launch The Daily Telegraph's Young Science Writer Competition. Full Article 24th November, 1993
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