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Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

Lighter, more compact scopes have been the trend over the past couple of years, as you’ll see…

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

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

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