THE BIG RETORT

Somewhere in the cosmos a tiny blue planet receives an alien signal. A researcher writes "Wow!" Nearly forty years lapse. It quick...

A science paper predicts that a nearby red-star system known as Gliese 581 is the likely candidate for an extrasolar habitable world. Two ...

Sir Alan Sugar may feel even he has gone a bit too far if he hires former Marine Christopher Farrell. TheBigRetort lifts the lid on the Knu...

Many scientists in the United States and worldwide are furious that the space agency NASA has apparently allowed a small body of Kepler scie...

A Texan aged 63 has won at scratch-off card games every two years since 2006. In 1993 she also won a lottery bringing her total winnings to ...

Could Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, be involved in a gigantic cover-up? If so, he's going down... and not just in the eyes of the voter...

The Sun newspaper and Operation Trident. TheBigRetort discovers the (black) gangland shootout that never was. On the 1st January 2010, a...

In a remarkable hush-hush scoop TheBigRetort has discovered that David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, regularly injects Botox in...

The secret to living a longer life, or just a load of plonk? TheBigRetort pulls the cork... Scientists claim that sirtuins, proteins, becom...

A controversial experiment is planned to take place tomorrow that may signal THE END of the Earth. But could experiments like the controvers...

Recently we delivered a startling account of the major failings of Eastbourne District General Hospital and its 'aftercare' treatmen...

As the child of a black man and white woman Barack Obama is often (simply) referred to as 'black'. A description that will one day...

Around the globe the words 'domain' and 'cash parking' are synonymous with GoDaddy. So why are 70% of the reviews on t...