Last Wednesday (4th July, 2012) scientists at CERN claimed the discovery of a particle “consistent with the Higgs boson”. As far as we’re concerned, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck… then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We seem to have had a bit of a run on topical strips recently, but this one is by far our most topical to date, coming less than three hours after the successful landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re sorry to hear about the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. We have huge admiration for everyone involved in the Apollo programme, especially the astronauts who put their lives on the line in the name[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another of our comics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who — but this time we set ourselves the challenge of coming up with a strip that doesn’t actually include the Doctor or any other characters from the series.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The old “attach a photo to the camera” trick is a popular one in thrillers, spy films and heist movies, but for some reason doesn’t appear much in science fiction. This strip is our attempt to rectify this obvious omission.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of comics ago we had a strip that was aimed squarely at computer programmers and electronic engineers. This time we’ve gone for one that’s intended for physicists, so the usual rules apply: if you don’t get the joke[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given the increasing realisation amongst scientists of the sheer scale and importance of the human microbiome, it always makes me chuckle when science fiction programmes hand-wave away the possibility of contamination with the notion of “biological filters” built into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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