Julie Bishop on the so-called Second Space Race between governments and private business.

Dominic Burchnall on possible gene therapy for the delicate parts of the inner ear.

Mabon Elis on powdered alcohol.

Heat vision has typically been the reserve of pit vipers, rattlesnakes and individuals with access to very front heavy goggles. But now in addition to the plans to add micro-circuitry which will allow for a Terminator-esque information overlay to the world, engineers from the University of Michigan have developed an infrared sensor minute enough to…

Mabon Elis on the ground breaking discoveries about the big bang.

Since 2003, when French and Spanish researchers seemingly reversed time and revived an extinct species of wild goat (the burcado), the process now dubbed “de-extinction” has been linked with bringing back other species from the depths of time. A discovery last year of a highly preserved 47,000 year old mammoth in eastern Siberia, has recently…