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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

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 tech revolution that manipulates the subatomic world

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Across the UK, but particularly in the south-east of England, giant and featureless buildings are springing up. Despite their size, they’re designed to be unobtrusive, and you won’t spot any signage t