The Stories
The media constantly bombards us with science scare stories, but how close are they to the truth? Our background briefs reveal the facts:
Be there then
If we can travel through time, why aren't people from the future here telling us how? Or at least in 1980s France buying up all the cheap property? Get to grips with time travel.
Be somewhere else now
It's the quickest way to travel from place to place - but is it even possible? Will we be stuck with jets and taxis, or might our future allow us to try teleportation?
Swapping polarity
North is north, and south is south - and while the twain might never meet, they might swap. Will pole shifts lead to magnetic mayhem?Have you heard, it's in the stars...
Are we doomed to be crushed to death in a collision with a rock from the skies? Is there an asteroid heading for impact - planet earth?Champs on drugs?
Is sport ruined by the use of drugs? Can you keep the Olympic ideal pure simply by testing the best?
A weighty matter
If butter is bad, why do some marge manufacturers claim their product is good for you? How bad is fat?Smarter than science?
They're working out how to survive the onslaught of antibiotics - now can anything stop superbugs on the march?Computing viruses
We're familiar with the big risks - but is our existence under attack from invisible forces? Meet our biggest smallest threat.
A change in the weather
Some experts believe evidence already shows the climate is changing; others claim it's showing nothing more than natural variations. So, will we be frying or freezing?
Tanning or cooking up cancers?
Tanning, of course, used to be a term for the process of taking a dead animal's skin and turning it into leather. Is suntanning so very different? Is the sun bad for you?
Send in the clones
Does clone technology really mean that in the future we'll all have our mini-mes? First came Dolly... where next for cloning?Placebo or cure-all?
If you turn your back on conventional medicine, will you get better? We put alternative therapy on trial.


