Stephen Luntz

The success of a transplant from a patient with only one copy of the protective gene might be a one-off, but may also allow others to benefit.

When people talk about terraforming planets, they don’t usually think of moss as a tool, but perhaps we’ve been underrating this great survivor.

It sounds like science fiction, but some insects have it down to a fine art.

It’s an excellent rehearsal for if we need to use interplanetary missions to calculate the path of a more threatening object.

When people say “vote like your life depends on it”, they usually mean how you vote – but voting at all might be lifesaving.

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic poles reversing repeatedly.

We might need to rethink the meaning of the expression “glacial pace”

The difference between solving a great mystery requiring vast computing power and enduring ignorance could be one hungry intern.

Turtles do it, baby dragonflies do it, so why shouldn’t people with clogged lungs survive by breathing through their posteriors?

So much of what we know about the universe beyond the Earth comes down to one crucial technique.