The Positive Side of Lightning

Who doesn’t love a good thunder and lightning show? The awesome power of nature writ large across the sky…

The Day I Saw A Ghost

Anecdotes, whilst not considered compelling evidence by skeptics, nevertheless hold a lot of power over those not used…

The Universe is a pint of beer

Whilst not as refreshing, nor capable of being contained inside a standard pint glass, the universe is…

42 Minutes

When you think Robert Hooke and Issac Newton, you think of great strides in the human understanding of the natural world. What you perhaps…

The story of an atom

13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago (or thereabouts), something happened. A tiny thing that we call a singularity, for…

The Last Eclipse

Unless you plan to be around until September 2090, chances are if you want to see a total solar eclipse, you’ll have to travel…

When in astronomical history would you have liked to have lived?

Ice Bound Life

Hiking across a glacier is not something to everyone’s taste, but to glacial geologists, it’s more than just a hobby. In 1887, one…

Solar Chaos

The sun is our constant companion; it supplies heat and light to us and keeps our small blue/green world from freezing. However, as…