North Face has launched a new initiative called “Longer Days” that encourages outdoor endeavours now that spring has arrived. The company, which sells outdoors kit including camping and hiking gear, has created two competitions in which users can win daily and weekly prizes ranging from high quality outdoors utility backpacks to a […]

Imagine if you will, plummeting down into the inky depths of liquid space, confined into a small space only fit for three people, switches and electronic paneling covering the walls, and no real sound except for the occasional sound of water rushing past. I am of course referring to the […]

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 […]

Since it parachuted onto Mars last September, the American space agency NASA has made the most of the success of the Curiosity rover as it explores the inhospitable Martian terrain around its landing site. While it has achieved some notable exploratory firsts, Curiosity is potentially harming the very human trait […]

It is the early hours on the morning of Thursday, December 7th 1972. A human being  has just snapped a photograph that will change the world. The man in question is not even a trained photographer; doesn’t answer to any editorial team. He’s a geologist by trade, but couldn’t be […]