The Grandson Moonbase Junior is a budding geologist. Along with his Dad he melted a block of the heavy element Bismuth to grow crystals as ...

Is it valid to consider all living things as programmes? I suppose I first encountered this idea in the film The Matrix. I was fascinated ...

I was recently posed with the question whether eight unequal parts of a sliced-up pizza are still eighths or are they something else? A...

This week I watched an old flick called The Quiet Earth, a movie made in New Zealand in the 1980's. Often cited as a brilliant sci-fi f...