The Earth’s magnetic field is in a permanent state of change. Magnetic north drifts around and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so a compass would point south instead of north. The strength of the magnetic field also constantly changes and currently it is showing signs of significant …
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Underwater highways, hoverboard-based sports and holidays in space are some of the upcoming revelations which will be commonplace in 50 years’ time, a new report on the future of technology has predicted. The report also predicts the mass-scale production of 3D-printed organs, implants to monitor our health and self-cleaning homes …
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Up to 40 million electronic gadgets are lying discarded in UK homes, a study has found. Each of the items contains, including old phones, music players and tablets, contain rare Earth metals such as Indium, Yttirium and Europium. Yttrium, for example, is worth £2,397 ($3,400) per pound and is used for camera …
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Anglo-Saxon ‘royal rubbish dump’ of animal bones from lavish feasts at a long lost manor 1,400 years ago is found by archaeologists in a Kent beer garden Three-week dig at Market Inn pub in Faversham, Kent, also uncovered pottery It is thought the spot where servants piled up feasting meat …
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Jeff Bezos in front of Blue Origin’s space capsule Jeff Bezos’ space tourism project with Blue Origin is competing with a similar programme in development by Space X, the rocket firm founded and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Virgin Galactic, backed by Richard Branson. Bezos revealed in April …
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How should humanity respond to first contact from extra-terrestrials? UK alien hunters to ask the public in the largest ever survey of its kind A survey has been launched which will ask the public how we should respond The views they will gather will help shape plans for an international …
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