When did you first hear about Jeremiah Horrocks? As a child, I saw him and his telescope on the stained-glass windows at St Michael’s Church in Much Hoole, Lancashire. The windows, depicting his groun

When Yerkes Observatory opened in Wisconsin in 1897, it was a wonder. Alongside the great one-metre (40-inch) telescope – the largest refractor ever built – the lavish facilities included the novelty

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SET TO TAKE HIS NEW LIVE SHOW AROUND THE WORLD, THE PHYSICIST AND PRESENTER REFLECTS ON HIS DEFINING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES

DEEPMIND COFOUNDER DEMIS HASSABIS HAS ALREADY WON A NOBEL PRIZE AND A KNIGHTHOOD FOR HIS INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN BIOLOGY. HIS AI STARTUP ISOMORPHIC LABS COULD DELIVER EVEN BIGGER BREAKTHROUGHS.

In the 1960s, American project developer and writer Stewart Brand played a part in the LSD-based counterculture of San Francisco. Along with author Ken Kesey and composer Ramón Sender Barayón, he co-p