I'm not one for the seemingly endless series of over-hyped Idol, Popstars, and X-Factor dross that passes for entertainment. However, I came across something today that really impressed me. A mobile phone salesman from Cardiff belted out a quite amazing, if a touch rough, Nessun Dorma. He even got a …

Building tools to simulate a solar system.

Volcanic plumes on Jupiter's moon Io.

Finding Jupiter in the sky to see it for yourself (June 2007).

A spectacular image of Saturn and a lesser object by Cassini.

Astronomy from the front of a T-shirt.

It is 20 April in the Canberra region. The autumn evening temperature is rapidly dropping toward what will be the lowest temperature of April: 3.6 deg. Celsius. Despite the conditions, five amateur astronomers are setting up across the region to watch the rather nondescript star HIP 59807 in the …

One of my favourite time wasters is a small game called Kobo Deluxe. Kobo Deluxe is a fast-paced multi-way scrolling shoot-em-up. The game is an update on the original XKobo by Akira Higuchi and bears a passing resemblance to Bosconian. The game's simplicity only serves to heighten its very addictive …

Galactic collisions and the Antenna Galaxies

This article was originally prepared for the Self-Service Science Forum around 1997. It has been resurrected and brought into the Wikipedia age to replace all the broken links in the original. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Brief Biography Despite having an inauspicious schooling and a generally unsociable outlook, Isaac Newton …