• The ExoMars Missions: Is there life on Mars?

    Why Mars?… On our planet, where there is water, there is life. There is plenty of evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars. Landforms that could be due to water eroding the landscape are visible, and multiple landers have detected minerals on the surface which usually form in...
  • Film Noir – Hitchcock’s Rear Window vs Nolan’s Dark Knight: Two Noir Masterpieces Fifty Years apart

    When we think of film noir, we reflect on Hollywood’s crime mysteries from the 1940s such as Citizen Kane and The Third Man. However, this enigmatic genre that originates from German Expressionist Cinematography has never left Hollywood, it has only evolved throughout the decades. Film Noir’s main elements revolve...
  • STICKING TO THE SCRIPT: NARRATIVES IN FOOTBALL

    Dan Zeqiri returns for the second of his weekly Wednesday columns. This week: how narratives come to be established in football… Applying crude reductionism and offering simplistic reasons to explain the results of football matches is nothing new, I’m sure. However, in the social media age, this habit seems...