Frustrated magnets and the Hall Effect
Frustrated magnets are so called because they ought to be magnetic at low temperatures but aren’t. Scientists at Princeton University carried out an experiment...
Farage set to lose his own South Thanet seat, say Tory newspapers
Two Tory newspapers, the Telegraph and Mail, say Nigel Farage, head of the anti-EU party UKIP, is set to lose his South Thanet seat...
Arachnophobia is in our genes, a product of human evolution
A new study suggests that arachnophobia – a fear of spiders – is in our genes, i.e. it has become part of our DNA...
Large Hadron Collider, now a much mightier beast, restarted
The Large Hadron Collider, which is much more powerful now, restarted on Sunday. With its much mightier bang compared to two years ago when...
Blair-Thatcher, Monroe-Einstein – hybrid images for eyesight testing
If you mix images of Tony Blair with Margaret Thatcher or Albert Einstein with Marilyn Monroe, combining low spatial frequency components of one with...
Pensioners lack awareness about upcoming pension reforms
Apparently not enough has been done by pension providers to keep people up to date about upcoming retirement changes in the UK on April...
OnePlus rolls out OxygenOS, its custom version of Android
Smartphone-maker OnePlus just launched an in-house version of the Android OS.
OnePlus’s OxygenOS is based on Android 5.0 and was created to replace the customized...
Radio bursts too precise to be random, must be from alien intelligence
If you were a Morse code clerk receiving messages and came across something that could not be random, you would think it was from...
Mars wet past more recent than previously thought, Curiosity finds
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence of liquid movement further up a mountain in Mars, which scientists say suggests the Red Planet had liquid more...
Hybrid Einstein-Monroe image tells you if you need glasses
An Einstein-Monroe hybrid image that combines low spatial frequency components of a photo of Marilyn Monroe and high spatial frequency components of an image of...