Travelling to space on a budget?
James Bezer looks at the future of commercial space flight
You can’t teach an old virus new tricks
James Bezer on the giant virus that is still infectious despite its age
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
Old people have always had it in for BBC3. Unlike the sleepy old BBC4, home of gentle documentaries presented by the lovely Lucy Worsley, BBC3 is an overactive puppy, full of rebellion and naïve excitement that spends most of its spare time engaged in an act of passion with the
Radiation-free tumour detection method
Diagnosis and treatment of cancer often involves some of the most damaging procedures that doctors would ever intentionally inflict upon a human body.
The pseudoscience shaking the Shroud
Alongside UFOs, homeopathy and all manners of conspiracy theories, the Shroud of Turin has long been known as a perennial source of pseudoscience.
Crystallography turns 100
James Bezer on the triumphs of one of the most influential scientific techniques
Ancient traces of water found on Mars
For a vehicle designed to last just 7 earth weeks, Opportunity has done remarkably well. Ten years to the day since the rover first landed on the surface of Mars, its new analysis of some of the oldest rocks ever found there show environments potentially suitable for life were aroun...
Hubble gives us further insight into distant galaxies
18 years after the famous Deep Field image, a series of photographs from the Hubble space telescope are giving us a new insight into extremely distant galaxies that formed soon after the big bang.
Most distant gravitational lens yet discovered
The most distant example of a gravitational lens has been discovered by scientists in Germany.