Letter of the month

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

We humans are always wondering whether we’re alone in the Universe. But what if we are one of a long line of species that were around long before our planet even existed? This intriguing idea, that li

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm