I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

Chariots of the Gods (see pp28-35) came out when I was a young teenager, and like many others I was impressed by Erich von Däniken’s bestseller. It popularised the idea of ancient aliens for a mass au

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

Somewhen back in the 1980s, I was sitting on the couch in my living room smoking weed and watching TV around 11 in the morning. Nothing unusual. (I had been toking for roughly 20 years by then.) A com

It’s the start of another great day on your holiday. After enjoying breakfast under your awning, basking in the early morning sunshine, you head off sightseeing. Maybe you had a lovely day spent wande

From stargazing as a child to presenting the iconic The Sky At Night , Dame Maggie Aderin, 57, tells us how she beat the odds to become a space scientist, and why life beyond Earth matters to all of us