“I couldn’t do an office job,” says Pawel Wolf, sitting in the glaring Sudanese sun on a dirt road in Karthoum next to a makeshift, open-air workshop where his jeep is being geared up for the trip ahead. The jeep will take him to a wasteland area between Dar el-Arab and Kerbikan on the banks of the Sudanese stretch of the Nile and it better be in shape. No other car is likely t

A lot of people want to do something extraordinary when they finish studying. 26-year-old Nora Graser has gone and done just that. She is spending 15

How far would you go for your job? To the South Pole or the Saudi-Arabian desert? How about outer space? Researchers often have to go to extremes to find what they are looking for. There are weather phenomena that can best be investigated in polar regions or in the heights of the Himalaya mountains. Only in remote areas, far away from human civilization, is it possible to observe rare animal species. And archeologists make their greatest finds in areas no one has set foot on in thousands of years.

Traveling at 22,000 kilometers per hour whilst the temperature drops by 300 degrees Celsius may sound like a day in the life of Luke Skywalker. But a Jedi Thomas Reiter is not. He is an astronaut and has experienced just that. So we called Houston – no problem – and had a chat with him about the extremes in his life as an astronaut and the preparation for his next mission to the International Space Station.