Articles by David Millar

David Millar is a science writer with an interest in climate change past and present (http://davidmillarwriting.com/).
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...