Asteroids rich in rare elements could be harvested for their valuable contents, but the real worth may be in using them as interplanetary fuel stations

Damien Demolder considers...

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

Do you daydream about swapping the rat race for an outdoor-centric existence The trailblazers here have all taken dramatic steps to change their lives their stories might just inspire you to do the same

She grew up believing in divine creation, but a radical rethink led Ella Al-Shamahi to evolutionary biology. Now, the presenter of the BBC science series Human shares her story

It’s a cold, clear February evening on Brighton beach. The sun has not yet dipped below the horizon and the last of the light is that strange, luminescent blue that presages dusk. Hundreds of pairs of