Your fringe looks glossy by 11am, your roots shine under office lights, and your solution keeps being the same: wash more, scrub harder, go squeaky-clean.

The scale used to decide my mood by breakfast. Clothes were a scoreboard I always seemed to lose. I stepped off the numbers ...

The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the Sun’s environment could violently change. It also suggested that emerging technologies, such as the electrical telegraph, were beginning ...