In fourteen days’ time, humankind will finally get to see a world which was regarded as the outermost planet in the solar system for most...
Climate pessimists have long postulated an arctic global warming catastrophe scenario that goes like this: trillions of tonnes of methane are locked up in the...
If you sometimes feel as though you struggle to keep up with the pace of scientific developments, it’s not just your imagination. A study earlier...
Just over a hundred years ago, a little-known German pharmaceutical chemist named Felix Hoffmann wanted to do something to help alleviate his father’s rheumatism. He...
Next month ESA will attempt to place a lander the size of a shopping trolley on a comet travelling at 55,000 kilometers an hour. With...
For most of the time since modern humans emerged ‘out of Africa’ roughly 150,000 years ago, the northern hemisphere has been in the grip of...
What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago people talked about global warming as something that would affect the developed world decades ahead, if...