Red matter

An old-fashioned hardback book often still beats the internet, doesn’t it? When you can get hold of one. Right now, there’s one, in a package with my name on it, stuck somewhere between a second-hand

The difficulty in creating a theory of ‘quantum gravity’ is that the two ideas look at the Universe at completely different scales. Quantum mechanics looks at the smallest scales of the particles that

The high-tech Japanese sake company Asahi Shuzo is taking a bold step forward by attempting to brew its sake off-world for the first time, with the ultimate goal of being able to brew sake on the Moon

Human life is facing one of the biggest challenges in its history. Rampant climate change, driven by industrial activity, threatens our entire civilisation. The destabilised currents, intensifying hea

JD Savage investigates a mysterious, invisible force that rules the universe. Just watch out it doesn’t pull you in!

The global electricity grid is expanding fast, says Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank. Copper – “the world’s most efficient and versatile industrial conductor” – lies at the centre of a commodities megatrend fu