A recent study undertaken by the Institute of Polar Science has backed plans by Gala Casino to create the first ever Ice Casino. Led by Professor Ross Bight, a renowned figure in the fields of both…

LAUGHTER IS CLOSELY RELATED TO FEAR, RESEARCHERS FIND HONG KONG, March 2, 2015 The surest way to make someone laugh is to attack them, researchers said this week. Humor is rooted in fear, and…

Oh, yes.  I absolutely adore meeting with the media, it's my chance to give something back, don't you know, to give aspiring young journalists a paw up, as it were.  It's the least I can do…

After a year in which further details of national intelligence agencies' shadowy surveillance networks were laid bare, a fresh leak of documents reveals the obsessive surveillance that extends as far…

Good Needlwork magazine shows you how to get better bosoms. Image: Dave Whatt By Jo Brewis, University of Leicester When my good friend and long-term collaborator Sam Warren was given a pile of women…

Here is a flower we all (in the northern hemisphere at least) associate with Christmastime, Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly known as the Poinsettia (or Weihnachtsstern = Christmas Star in Germany…

Cambridge University Press website mislabels and Astronomy text as an Astrology text. I was looking for open access open source freely downloadable and good textbooks to use in my future…

Play the video below to see how to solve the puzzle I posted last week: The object actually appears as it is pictured. It is not an optical illusion. The image was not created using an “in camera…

The object actually appears as it is pictured. It is not an optical illusion. The image was not created using an “in camera” special effect (no special lighting, no filters other than the built-in…

Programmers may not be the guys with the best sense of humor around, but I found it quite entertaining to read a web page with a collection of source code comments arising a smile. The one I liked…