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I've often mentioned how small-scale life is overlooked compared to the larger creatures we share this planet with. Three recent exampl...

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With the UK narrowly avoiding France's fate of a triple dip recession, I thought I would bite the bullet and examine some of the economi...

A few evenings ago I saw the International Space Station. It was dusk, and walking home with the family we were looking at Jupiter when a mo...

I recently saw a billboard for the Samsung Galaxy SIII advertising a competition to win a "trip to space", in the form of a suborb...

It's astonishing to think that in less than two weeks' time it will be half a century since Yuri Gargarin slipped the surly bonds of...

As Major Tim Peake undergoes training as the first British citizen to join the European Space Agency's (ESA) Astronaut Corps, it's a...