Volcanic eruptions: a number of volcanoes are active now. is it a sign of trouble?

A heartbeat-like pulse has been discovered beating deep beneath East Africa – and it’s ripping the continent apart. The strange thumping is caused by a rhythmic surge of molten mantle rock rising and

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

was on Sicily to cover the launch of the new Ghost Poacha freeride bike (see last issue), and the German brand had a rather special day-trip planned. While tourist access to the volcano is widespread

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott