You don’t have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician."

Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves at the Earth.

When I was finishing my PhD, I could just see people who were a bit quicker and brighter and smarter than me and I thought, 'well they are the people who are going to make the great discoveries.'

People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.