Book of the Month, May 2018!
April 17, 2018
Fantastic to have my Ladybird Expert Big Bang as BBC Sky at Night Magazine’s Book of the Month, May 2018! Here is the lovely review. It’s so nice to have someone appreciate how hard it was to squeeze so much difficult material into so small a space and …
The Day Without A Yesterday, Edinburgh, 7 April
April 4, 2018
The greatest discovery in the history of science is that there was a day without a yesterday. The Universe has not existed forever. It was born. 13.82 billion years ago all matter, energy, space – and even time – erupted into being in a titanic firebal …
Space Careers, Edinburgh, 6 April
March 26, 2018
Looking for a career change? Did you want to be NASA’s recently advertised Planetary Protection Officer? As the number and range of space careers available expand, you could become the next Moon miner, galactic architect or even alien cultural exchange …
Big Bang, Science Museum, 28 March
March 26, 2018
To celebrate the publication of Big Bang: Ladybird Expert, will talking about the Big Bang: The Day with out a Yesterday at the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London at 7.30pm on Wednesday 28 March.
Jewish Book Week, 7 March, 8.30pm
January 24, 2018
On 14 September 2015, gravitational waves were first detected on Earth. The source – two merging black holes – briefly pumped out 50 times more power than all the stars in the Universe together. I write about this – and much more – in my latest book, T …