As I grew up, I learned how much domestic violence there was around me. The earliest incidence I recall was from our next door neighbours. There were constant arguments. She drank. He worked shifts in the local Rolls Royce factory. Whenever we heard raised voices, mum or dad would lower the volume […]

One of the most life changing decisions you can make is to have a baby, to bring a new life into this world. There’s so much to consider… Can we afford it? Is our relationship ready for this? Are we prepared for the responsibility and strain? But one decision not […]

60 years ago today on the 28th February in 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure at Cambridge University. DNA has become something of a talking point ever since the great horse-meat scandal earlier on this year but the importance of DNA has […]

The deep-sea has been a mystery to mankind for as long as we’ve been on the surface of the planet.  The fact that vast swathes (71%) of our world remain hidden under 2-3, even 5-7 miles of ocean, is a mind-boggling concept, and it’s only until the last century that […]

Countries should pay close attention to the development of methods for detection and tracking of celestial bodies as it is impossible to counter space threats “working blindly.” This is the opinion expressed by Alexander Bagrov, Full Doctor of Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy […]

One of the most common New Years resolutions is to get fit, an idea that may already be done and dusted for a lot of people within the first few weeks of January. Plenty think they’ll just ‘take up running’, but these peter out pretty quickly thanks to icy weather […]

Vegetarians up and down the land continue to sit atop their very high, very un-minced horses this week, using up their desperately low energy reserves in order to maintain a smug smile, as the meat scandal is trotted out (couldn’t resist) on every single news update. Honestly, it’s like the […]

Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences continue to investigate the meteorite explosion recorded in the Chelyabinsk region near the Chebarkul lake on 15 February 2013, after which more than 1.5 thousand people sought medical care. Modern methods of detection of celestial bodies have been unable to predict this threat, […]