Tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis - with a spate of disasters occurring worldwide this year, this month's issue of Focus magazine looks at the science of predicting the next disaster.

Are you watching Brian Cox's new series Wonders of the Universe? Don't worry if you missed it, you can catch the show on iPlayer and on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC 2.

Everyone at Focus towers was excited to see Brian Cox's new series Wonders of the Universe on Sunday.

Don't worry if you missed it, you can catch the show on iPlayer and the next three episodes on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC 2.

Design engineer Annie Berrisford gives her tenth insider’s view on the BLOODHOUND SCC team’s attempt to smash the land speed record – and break the 1000 mph barrier in the process. Follow the car’s progress with Annie’s exclusive monthly blog for Focus.

It was World Book Night on Saturday, and we asked you what your top science books were on Twitter. Here were your top five favourites:

• Evolution by Stephen Baxter 

  (from @steffenwragg)

At 6pm GMT, Apple is expected to launch the iPad 2, the successor to the uber-selling iPad. At least we assume it'll be called the iPad 2 - the official name isn't known yet.

Predictions suggest the iPad mark II will be lighter and thinner, with more memory but perhaps not a higher quality screen. And will it support Flash Player?

Have you travelled through a rainbow and seen the other side? One reader wrote to our expert Robert Matthews about a childhood experience that had always puzzled him.

Wikipedia has turned ten. The online encyclopaedia continues to grow, with more than 3.5 million articles in English alone and an astounding 17.6 million articles all together.

We all like a good game show. Deal or No Deal, Countdown, Blankety Blank... but what about the game show that electrocutes people to death using 450v electric shocks?

Last year, a French TV show called Le Jeux de la Mort (The Game of Death) might have caught your attention.

It's the 10th anniversary of the world's biggest reference site, Wikipedia.

I spoke to founder Jimmy Wales about the future of Wikipedia and its relationship to scientific research: should students cite Wikipedia, what are the next big innovations in information sharing and, most importantly, how often does he edit his own Wikipedia page?