Time travel, telepathy, free energy… science-fiction pipe dreams, right? Not according to scientists who are stretching the laws of physics to the brink. Paul Parsons says to hell with the horizon.
To discover the ultimate theory linking all forces of nature in the Universe, physicists need to prove that proton decay exists. So why has nobody succeeded so far? Robert Matthews investigates
If terrorists ever got their hands on a stray batch of nuclear material and made a dirty bomb, a small band of scientists would be tasked with tracking it down. Andy Ridgway joined them on the nuclear trail
This month:
Mars 2210
Science fiction author extraordinaire Stephen Baxter reckons we could have colonised the red planet in a few centuries time. We look at: Mining the Moon
Warp drive
Meeting the alien neighbours