In the film, ‘The Fifth Element’, Mila Jovovich’s character is in a pretty bad state. After her spaceship is shot down and crashes on Mars, all that can be recovered from the wreckage is a solitary hand. There is no cause for alarm (although cue spoiler alert)…

When we imagine code breaking, we conjure up images of dingy basements in the 1940s, with mathematicians striving to decipher Nazi communications during the Second World War. Undoubtedly, this is because breaking the German Enigma code became pivotal for…

Throughout the aeons, we have looked up at the sky and seen the ‘wandering stars’- the planets — personifying them and even giving them divinity, perhaps as a means to explain their unusual movements. In keeping with this tradition, we have named all the current planets and other larger objects…