We all have an idea of who we are and what we stand for. But when that idea doesn’t quite match up to reality, an identity crisis can ensue. The same goes for countries, and Britain is currently going through the mother of all identity crises. That’s a huge problem at this crucial moment in history. After all, Timothy Oliver asks, if Britain doesn’t know what it is, how can it know what it wants to be after Brexit?

Philip Hancock pondered a similar question at the annual Chap Olympiad in London, an event that celebrates jolly good Britishness – and could be cause for some welcome optimism in the Brexit age.

Further afield, the universe is awash with alcohol. It has been quietly collecting in clouds between solar systems for aeons like the ultimate intergalactic distillery. Alexander MacKinnon explains how it got there and what we can do with it.

Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system, started growing more than three billion years ago. But scientists have now discovered a number of equally exciting small volcanoes on the planet that formed far more recently. David Rothery explains that they could have once supported microbial life and would be a great place to look for fossils.

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