Explorers

Professor Nicholas Negroponte believes the internet should be free for everyone to use, like roads and street lighting. Considered a true visionary

Bart Knols has declared war on mosquitoes, armed with nothing more than plastic tubes and fine netting, and steely determination. The Dutchman and

A shoe-box sized spacecraft launched today to test a solar sail, a unique technology championed by famous astronomer Carl Sagan. The spacecraft

The surface of Mars as photographed by the American rover Curiosity shows a diverse topography and terrain. Meteorite craters dot the surface

When you are a polar explorer, you have a different set of reference points for good weather and bad. As we prepare to start recording our Skype chat

Swiss adventurer Jean Troillet has made exploration and discovery part of his everyday life, and revels in the chance to share the photos and videos

Russian artist and world-famous explorer Fyodor Konyukhov has set up camp at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for a unique exhibition of his works

When Dr Laura Robinson and her team set off from Tenerife to Trinidad on a scientific expedition, they could guarantee that they would see parts of

The Bloodhound SSC team has begun testing in the South African desert in preparation for the car’s first attempt at the world land speed record in

Jeremy Curl has just returned to Europe after an epic voyage on foot through the Sahara desert in search of prehistoric art. The Anglo-Irish explorer

Not all explorers are hearty outdoors fanatics with a penchant for wild places and uncharted lands. Some, instead, are explorers of the intangible

“Back to Antikythera” is the new marine research project organized by The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Massachusetts, in partnership

Italian adventurer Alex Bellini is going to live on an iceberg until it melts in one of the most unusual expeditions of modern times. He spoke to

Francesco Sauro is a modern day cave man, a daring speleologist who is never happier than when he’s deep underground exploring a new cave system

Interview Felix Baumgartner is the world’s most famous skydiver, a daring athlete and explorer of the extreme who jumped to Earth from the edge of

Interview Sarah McNair Landry is a modern day polar adventurer and film-maker. At age 18 she became the youngest person ever to ski to the South

In the US, World View Enterprises says it is a step closer to launching commercial balloon flights to the edge of space, having made a test flight to

Opinion Giorgio Metta is an explorer in the field of humanoid robotics. The Italian professor is best known for developing the iCub robot platform

Opinion – Jon McBride, former astronaut Jon McBride, former astronaut and ambassador for Kennedy Space Center It’s been thirty years since my

The Shell Eco-marathon in Rotterdam challenges student teams from around the world to design, build and test ultra energy-efficient vehicles. This

Opinion – Sarah Charley, Fermilab/CERN science writer Some of the greatest Explorers of our time spend their lives focused around a giant underground

Keeping track of time is one of the biggest challenges that French space scientist Lucie Poulet encountered during her four month adventure living

A new solar-aircraft which is capable of flying around the world fuelled only by the Sun has been unveiled in Switzerland. Solar Impulse 2 has huge

Marine life is increasingly suffering from man-made noise pollution, a situtation that is set to get worse in the years to come with the growth of

The ITER project is truly at the frontier of knowledge, a collective effort to explore the tantalising future of free, clean and inexhaustible energy