People began collapsing in the streets and dying on the pavements

The importance of place to James Baldwin

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

How she turned rejection into lifelong fortune, favour and independence

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl

Many birds have fabulous plumage to attract mates or send warning messages. Some of the colours in their feathers are produced by microscopic structures on the feather surface that absorb and reflect

I was enjoying a stroll down the side of the River Avon in the direction of the village of Woodgreen on the edge of the New Forest on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. We had a long period of dry weathe