[ad_1] ‘Hidden numbers’ have a profound effect on our lives – from online dating and falling in love to manipulating our decisions through targeted advertising and fake news. In this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Mathematician and author Hannah Fry will explore how maths, numbers and data patterns can help explain make sense of life’s…
[ad_1] Nature chiefs hail tree angel appeal: Leaders of major environmental organisations back campaign to plant thousands of trees across UK Royal Horticultural Society and Woodland Trust both lent support to green drive Aim is to plant thousands of trees to help make Britain a better, greener country All the main political parties have made…
[ad_1] 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 weakening. Life has existed…
[ad_1] 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 will be key parts…
[ad_1] 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 lenses and mobile phone…
[ad_1] 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 bones from manor Archaeologists…
[ad_1] 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 2017 that he finances…
[ad_1] 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 protocol Scientists send probes…