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Arctic expedition cruise with Professor Helen Czerski: Svalbard, Norway

9 June 2026

3 July 2027 – 8 days from £6,197 per person with up to 44% early booking discount - See price panel below for availability

Embark on an unforgettable marine expedition to the Arctic, accompanied by oceanographer...

Uncovering Vesuvius, Pompeii and ancient Naples: Italy

9 June 2026

14 March 2027 - 6 days for £3,198 per person 12 September 2027 - 6 days for £3,298 per person Register your interest for 2028 and we will contact you when confirmed details including finalised dates and prices are available.

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Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

9 June 2026

A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals

Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) swimming past a reef covered with Coral sea fans including (Melithaea sp.) and (Pseudopterogorgia sp.), Soft corals (Dendronephthya sp), (Chironephthya sp.) and (Scleronephthya sp.) and Branching cup corals (Tubastraea micranthus). Many different sponges and tunicates are also seen, as are many coral reef fishes, including Anthias and Damselfish, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction

9 June 2026

Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new interventions have revealed that corals can be remarkably resilient if we can give them enough help to recover

Megalithic Malta: Temples, architecture and archaeology

9 June 2026

29 March 2027 – 6 days for £3,198 per person Register your interest for September 2027 and we will contact you when confirmed details including finalised dates and prices are available.

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Rice fields on terraced of Mu Cang Chai, YenBai, Vietnam. Rice fields prepare the harvest at Northwest Vietnam

The science of health and wellbeing in Bangkok and Chiang Mai: Thailand

9 June 2026

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years

9 June 2026

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered microbial life

A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

9 June 2026

Brown dwarfs are somewhere between the size of a planet and a star, so how could we have potentially mistaken two of them for distant galaxies? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that solving this cosmic mix-up is particularly possible now, as...

Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally

9 June 2026

Physics is considered a cold, hard science – but it will transform your life if you view it with a bit more subjectivity, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet

8 June 2026

Anthropic has warned that recursive-self-improving AI could be on the horizon, but the truth is the company is more immediately concerned with marketing itself for a blockbuster initial public offering on the stock market, says Matthew Sparkes