Michael Marshall

The answer to one of the biggest questions of all

The building blocks of the cosmos

Even though scientists sometimes make mistakes

It will cost billions of dollars. Is there anything in it for us?

From leaps forward in evolution to devastating asteroid impacts, these were the milestones that shaped our world

Physics suggests that the future has already happened

It may seem obvious, but the dark sky tells us a lot about the Universe

It was the birth of our entire Universe

We all know about the Moon, but not the other one

We are all gazing at an entirely new world

More than 2 billion years ago, Earth suddenly became more habitable. But why?

Nowadays Arabia is a fierce desert, but it was once densely vegetated, and could have been a home to the first humans that left Africa

Two obscure groups of tropical flies are the giants of the fly world

Meet the coconut crab: a land crab so big and powerful, it can break open coconuts with its pincers, and even hunt rats

Single-celled bloodsuckers called vampyrellids creep through the soil beneath your feet