We create things all the time: a meal, a painting, a tidy environment at home, or even a mess! We are always doing something which...

This might seem a strange question: surely that's what scientists are paid to do. However, it has become a rather more controversial...

It's easy to think that science is very remote from us, but in today's western society we're surrounded by its consequences and rely...

You are here - or at least there. I know that, because you're reading this. However, many, if not most scientists have a bit of a...

OK, so we all have the same problem with time: sometimes there just isn't enough of it when we have a lot to get done and at others it...

I've been asked to comment on an article which states that all memory of what happened before the Big Bang was erased by the brief period...

Comet NEOWISE I've quite got into astrophotography. We live in an area that is much darker at night than where we previously lived in...

I've seen it! I've seen it! I've seen it! Yes! Yes! Yes!! 1.30 am, look north, draw a mental line from Capella to the Plough, reach out...

Someone sent me a quote recently by JBS Haldane in his 1928 book Possible Worlds: "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only...

As we reach Trinity Sunday, the mainstream churches consider the nature of the One God as three persons: the Father, his Son, called...

In the field of mathematics rigorous proofs abound. There are various formal proofs of 1+1 =2, ranging from a few lines, to several...

What does modern physics actually tell us about why we are here? Well, an awful lot actually. As a physicist I am proud of the...

The more we learn about the universe, the weirder it seems to be, but also the more we discover that we don't know. Science is amazing...