The Roman Empire was vast and extensive, covering almost all of Europe. Britain also came under its rule for 400 years. First Julius Caesar visited in 55 BC, but he did not stay. Eventually, in 43 AD permanent conquest of the British Isles began and Britain became a Roman province…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been circling the Sun and taking images of it, and while it goes on with its regular job, it did something else too. It has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. According to NASA, “in two recent flybys…

In the first episode of the TV show Vikings, a bunch of Vikings set out for that island across the North Sea, which we know as England. They landed on a smaller island called Lindisfarne that had a monastery, which they destroyed. That part of the show was true. The…

In November 2018, amateur astronomer Dan Caselden was running an automated search of NASA space telescope images on his computer, for the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, when he found something weird. About 50-light-years away from Earth, in a field imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, this object was…

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Sun is watching you! This image was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory in October 2014. The image blends two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The active regions of the Sun appear brighter. Let’s talk about Halloween.Our whole existence, in fact everything alive on this planet is…

On the way back from the Lake District, I stopped by at Borrans Field in Ambleside to see the Ambleside Roman Fort, at the northern end of Lake Windermere. It was really amazing. Roman remains in the middle of a town bustling with tourists. The Ambleside Roman Fort covers approximately…

You may remember reading an article or two in UK newspapers about a new rock art discovery in Colombia, which the papers called the “Sistine Chapel of Ancient’s Rock Art”. Well, the articles were not entirely accurate. They gave the impression that this was a new discovery and had been…

Now that it has become painfully clear that we are in the anthropocene era, having changed the face of this planet both in terms of the environment and climate, many of us are trying to make changes to the way we live and consume, by eating green. While many of…

Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green Almost exactly 100 years after a flu pandemic occurred in 1918, humanity experienced another one. And for over eighteen months we have been under the influence of covid19. Lockdowns, quarantine, and a shattering global economy have been the results. But something happened that…