As huge wildfires are finally brought under control in Alberta, in Canada, we focus on the Transit of Mercury. How this celestial event helped us to begin to understand our place in the Solar System and beyond is also explained.
The Philippines has voted for a new president. He is likely to be very different to all who have gone before him. The USA now has a national mammal and the builders of tens of thousands of earth mounds in a remote part of South America are introduced.

Issue 275 - 12-05-2016