Hi all, some real life tasks I've been putting off have reached the point where I need to deal with them, so I'm taking a few days b...

We’ve looked at the kind of off-Earth living places - both on a planets surface and floating in space - that we might well build in the f...

            Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate t...

  Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate the sufferi...

Dark energy: It's one of cosmology's big mysteries. It also proves that scientists can   do a cool name if they try - it sounds sexy...

  Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate the sufferi...

Above: A map of the web of galaxies and galaxy clusters that make our local universe. It sounds like a fart joke.  But this fart coul...

            Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate t...

  ... this week has been crazier than usual, the weekend also looks busy, so I'm taking a break rather than publish a link-storm of the ...

The R ocket- B alloon*: Above: The rocket stage of a rocket-balloon (called the Bloostar) pulls away from its balloon stage. The idea...