Do you consider yourself to be an observant kind of person? Someone who really pays attention to detail? If you are, then you’ll be interested in watching and participating in a couple of video tests by researchers Christopher Chabris and…
Today is the 98th anniversary of the birth Alan Turing, one of most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. Born on was born on 23rd June 1912 in London, England, he is known as one of the fathers of modern…
On the 16th May 1960, Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in California fired up the first confirmed demonstration of a laser using a synthetic ruby. A few months later on 12th December and persuing a different line of research,…
If, like me, you have always believed that you never stop learning, and that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is part of the human condition, then I think you will love this. “In Our Time” , one of the…
The BBC reports that the a team of scientists from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy have found three new species of tiny creatures living over 2 miles down in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s so deep and dark there’s almost…
I think I’d better learn to knit and get a few sweaters and scarves under way. Just in case we step into a global cooling period, thanks to an Icelandic volcano with a hot temper. If you think it can’t…
The Science Museum, London, is celebrating a century of science and as part of the festivities, it asked visitors to vote for the scientific discovery or invention that most “changed the future”. The ten objects it put forward were: 1.…