There have been many discoveries of potentially habitable planets orbiting stars other than our own over the last few years. Now things are getting even more…
Sometimes, I think scientists are just that little bit too modest. A new paper in Science has a humdinger of a title: “Localized aliphatic organic material…
The BBC’s Panorama documentary on HMP Northumberland recently put the problem of drug taking in prisons firmly under the spotlight. The terrible harms that psychoactive drugs…
It looks like Donald Trump’s “great, great wall” is actually going to happen. Its likely impact on human society has been well-noted, but in the longer-term…
During the second reading of the bill that will give the government the go-ahead to trigger Britain’s exit from the European Union, MPs had a chance…
Romania recently saw the largest demonstrations on its streets since the fall of communism. On February 5, more than half a million people took part in…
It is well known that high blood pressure is a risk factor for dementia, so the results of a new study from the University of California,…
Most scientists agree that the Earth has pretty much always had its moon. Details of the moon’s composition (in particular the “isotopic mixture” of heavier and…
Every December, lexicographers around the world choose their “words of the year”, and this year, perhaps more than ever, the stories these tell provide a fascinating…
The classic 1950s cars on the streets of Havana are much admired by foreigners, yet the reality for most Cubans is a lot more mundane. For…
