How unlikely is our universe?

Amazing answers to your curious questions

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

Might our universe – as vast as it is – be simply one of many? We look at the growing evidence that there’s more than one cosmos out there

As an astronomer, I collect stars. There are several hundred billion of them in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, so it’s important to find a way to categorise them. While others might rank their stars by co

From an Academy-honoured screenwriter comes a mind-bending thriller – a bold vision of quantum AI and time travel, and a meditation on Fermi’s Paradox

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