Wealth between countries is often discussed as though it were a simple ranking of who has the most money. In reality, the picture is narrower and more complicated. Lists of the world’s richest countries usually measure wealth by GDP per capita, which is economic output divided by population. That changes the order completely. Large economies…

The history of science is crowded with people whose ideas arrived before the rest of the field was ready for them. Tibor Gánti belonged somewhere in that uneasy category: respected in small circles, barely recognised outside them, and for years almost absent from wider discussions about how life began. His work circulated quietly through Hungarian…

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are conducting research to see how the human body is affected by microgravity, and the possibility of growing stem cells in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) allows us to see how such…

Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that astronomers have spent years looking for and struggling to study: a temperate giant, large enough to qualify as a gas world but sitting in a temperature range that, by the standards of the universe,…