Articles by David Millar
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The outer limits?
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...
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The Arctic Methane Timebomb
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...
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Year in Review: Top discoveries of 2014
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...
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Aspirin: the most profitable drug of all time?
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...
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Coming Celestial Attractions
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...
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Our Submerged Past
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...
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Global Warming Edges Closer to Home
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...
