What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?
11 July 2018
From oxygen shortages to divisive factions, Mark Nelson recalls the challenges of two years in the Biosphere 2 ecosystem – and the media circus it spawned
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Why Le Guin's science fiction surpasses mere thought experiments
29 January 2018
On the passing of a hugely imaginative and popular writer who also provided science fiction and fantasy with a conscience
Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
2 August 2017
Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered a mysterious, pulsing radio signal – and the downsides of being a young woman in science
Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world
5 July 2017
The idea of finding planets beyond the solar system was considered borderline crazy just a few decades ago, until Didier Queloz ran headlong into the first one
The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died
17 May 2017
But for a chance decision, Don Swanson would have been killed in the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980. That day changed his life, and volcanology, forever
Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation's real danger
10 May 2017
Experience in Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima has taught Shunichi Yamashita that anxiety and disruption can hurt people far worse than radiation itself
