4 d. ago Mystery of the 'Dial of Destiny' is SOLVED after 2,000 years: Scientists finally uncover the true use for the ancient device that inspired Indiana Jones

It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism.

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9 d. ago It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play from the back. Chelsea fans tend to like forceful, direct football. Conflict of some kind always seemed inevitableThere was a new story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink. Continue reading...

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1 week ago NASA spots strange 'mushballs' of slushy hail fall on planet in our Solar System

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery

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2 w. ago King Charles makes wry joke about his health as he plants a tree in Rome in the final day of state visit to Italy

Charles kickstarted the final day of his state visit to Italy by chatting with scientists and planting a tree in the gardens of Villa Wolkonsky, the ambassador's residence just outside Rome.

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3 w. ago Scientists finally reveal if Tunnock's Teacakes are fit to fly 60 years after they were banned by RAF for exploding in cockpit

The RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine in Henlow, Bedfordshire, lifted the treats to 8,000ft inside an altitude chamber normally used in the training of new jet pilots.

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3 w. ago I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark | Gideon Meyerowitz

I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?It has finally happened. After a decade of avoiding the show, my wife and I decided that we would try out the new season of Married at First Sight. We consume quite a bit of reality TV, so it’s not that we avoided it precisely, but something about the idea of watching people struggle to build a healthy relationship amid a storm of cameras and manufactured drama just never drew us in. At least until we watched Married at First Sight and realised it was actually kind of fun.Relationship drama makes for addictive viewing. But after watching most of a season of weird “marriages”, screaming matches and couch quizzes accompanied by deep and meaningful music, one part of the show has struck me as really weird. Everyone keeps referring to the saga as an “experiment”. From the narrator to the experts who counsel the hapless couples on their relationship dramas, the entire show seems to be c...

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