Charless Cockell News Today

The present day habitability of Mars is an area of research that has exploded hugely in the last decade, to the extent that its often hard to keep track of everything thats going on. This is by way of background material for my other articles on habitability of Mars.

You’re somewhat of a captive audience. The guy up front, the one who’s driving, really has all the power.

Charles S. Cockell's book explores questions of the universe with those universal beings: cabbies.

The field of biology has always been rife with mavericks. Some of them have proven to be genuine revolutionaries in their respective fields. Others are

    For what purpose did the human brain evolve is a question that has puzzled scientists for decades.In 2010 Colin Blakemore, an Oxford neurobiologist argued that a mutation in the brain of a single human being 200,000 years ago turned intellectually able primates into a super-intelligent species that would conquer the world. Homo sapiens appears to be a genetic accident. We failed to build a radio during the first 99% of our 7 million year existence We are the only species of the billions o...