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...law, and there are fears that they are liable to be be bent or broken on cost-saving grounds. Rather than leave them in place to be broken accidentally or deliberately breached by a “rogue” space agency, it would be better to have less stringent but more practicable protocols. Certainly, as soon as you start sending humans to the surface of Mars, even the 300,000...

...laws of thermodynamics. There is no algorithm presented in the Methods that describes the selection process for who gets to live or die. To make this a random process is not only intellectually lazy, but it also contradicts Thanos’s claim that his motivations are benevolent. What about worlds or ecosystems that have already achieved the balance he hopes to create; would...

...laws of planetary motion. It is completely appropriate that Tycho be honoured with one of the most prominent craters on the Moon. Yet Galileo does not have a major crater to his name – the even larger crater south of Tycho being named Clavius after a relatively little-known 16th-century mathematician and astronomer. The clue to this mystery lies in the fact that, while...