The sunsets on Orkney are the stuff of legend, and though not many places on Earth can top them – perhaps one tiny moon orbiting far out in our Solar System could. Through the hazy atmosphere you could sit on the shores and...
Category - Frontiers 2015
Thirty Years at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit
How did a controversial subject like parapsychology come to find a home in Edinburgh University? The story begins rather darkly, with the death of the terminally ill writer Arthur Koestler and his healthy wife Cynthia in a...
From Orkney to Space School
In the summer holidays of 2014 I attended Senior Space School UK in Leicester, a week of activities...
Tidal turbine nears completion
Scot renewables Tidal Power is in the closing stages of construction of the largest and most...
Sea Kings of the north
The RAF’s Search and Rescue Force, established in 1918, has had a remarkable history of skill and...