The allure of the extreme

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

They knew the weather would be bad. But the three-person film crew, in Antarctica to document emperor penguins for a BBC documentary, decided to press ahead. “We wanted to film in these conditions,” s

Some people think that the seas hold the key to protecting the planet.