Quentin is an award-winning motoring journalist and transport campaigner. He presented BBC Two’s Top Gear for a decade, along with many other motoring and consumer shows.

Jonathan is an award-winning freelance science journalist based in the UK.

Our hunter-gatherer forebears weren’t the carnivorous cavemen we once thought. Which makes trying to build a diet based on ...

Mixing molten magma with cool water sounds dangerous; fortunately,National Geographichave done it for us - the result is beautiful and bubbly… and it blows up! So why are they doing this? Apart from ...

Picture a flamingo in your mind now and it’s probably A) fantastically pink, and B) standing on one leg. If not, it should be: the fuchsia-feathered birds adopt this unipedal stance for several hours ...

Think of a rock. It’s angular, grey and on the ground, right? Wrong. Rocks come in a staggering variety of shapes and colours, which help us decipher the stories of their geological lives. Here are ...

What’s the most effective way to protect our children’s mental health? The answer that’s been echoed by waves of politicians across the world over the last two decades: ban their social media. Such ...

Scientists have found a simple new method to reduce the rate of people suffering from a peanut allergy by a staggering 71 per cent. How? By feeding a child peanuts regularly between the ages of four ...

If you’ve seen tabloid news stories about Jesus’s face appearing in a piece of burnt toast or Michael Jackson’s visage peering out from the clouds, then you’ll know that you’re far from the only one ...