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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial...more

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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to min...more

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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

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I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Ving...more