Innovations, discoveries, and the future of technology.
Innovations, discoveries, and the future of technology.
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We rarely discuss what we would like to happen to us when we die. The prevalence of skulls and bones in “alternative” culture proves what a taboo subject area this has traditionally been. However, while “death” and “diamonds” aren’t two words you would usually put together, there is a glamorous…
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It's fair to say that emojis have completely revolutionised the way we communicate by text, and pretty much everyone uses them nowadays. In fact, their current cultural influence has been so profound that the Oxford English Dictionary named '?' its Word of the Year back in 2015. Oxford Dictionaries President…
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It's a common stereotype that short people (and shorter men especially) tend to be a lot angrier and more confrontational than their taller counterparts. Indeed, I've often heard that shorter guys are more dangerous in a fight because they feel like they have more to prove. For many years, this…
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Inventors from California and Florida have come together to create a device which harvests drinking water from thin air. The technology is expected to help tackle water shortages in equatorial countries, disaster zones and isolated communities. Furthermore, they have just won a $1.5 million prize to invest in the project.…
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Being forgetful sucks. It can seriously get in the way of your day to day life when it comes to important things you have to remember - or can just be really, really awkward. If you're meeting your boyfriend's parents for the third time and their names completely slip from…
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A lot of people out there probably think that NASA do most of their business out in space, but that's not at all true. As well as sending people to the moon and letting astronauts hang out on the ISS, NASA also spends a great deal of its time doing…
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Smartphones are amazing, but they're also ridiculously expensive. It seems like we go through them way too quickly. Can you believe that after I forgot my iPhone in my swim trunks, and sat in a hot tub drinking for two hours, it stopped working?! You can? Oh. Well... Um... Anyway,…
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Are brains are pretty amazing when you think about. Being able to process so much information about the world around us, while maintaining the many processes running throughout our body, without us having to consciously think about any of it, is remarkable. The fact that we can read, write, invent…
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Dr Stephen Hawking's death was a gigantic loss to humanity and to science. The renowned physicist's profound insights into black holes, the Big Bang and the formation of the universe have been critical to our understanding of the world, and the book that he authored, A Brief History of Time, is…
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With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing now less than 12 months away and the imminent threat of climate change leaving our planet on the precipice of uninhabitality, I wouldn't blame you if your thoughts started to wander to the idea of space travel to a planet…
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If we're being honest, some of the best weekends are often spent propped up on the sofa with snacks and enough Coca Cola to sink a battleship, playing your favourite video games. Is there any better escapism than being taken away to a myriad of different worlds and scenarios and…
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How much do you take the simple act of standing up and walking for granted? For the vast majority of us, it's something we don't even think about; it's simply an automatic process. But for some people, it's outright impossible - they are reliant on wheelchairs for mobility, and their…
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Black Lives Matter have championed black civil rights in an era where we seem to be regressing to the brutality and intolerance of the past. To a large extent, social media has shed light on US police departments’ racial profiling, distrust and unlawful killing of young, black men. A rift…
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We live in amazing times. Smartphones, 'Human Ubers,' sex robots - if our ancestors could warp to the present, their minds would be blown by the incredible innovations in technology. And I think they would particularly like the sex robots. But there's something missing. Whenever there's news about a futuristic new…
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As someone who forgets where they've put their wallet approximately 1,256 times a day, I've been crying out for some good, solid memory hacks for a long, long time. But really, we're all looking for an edge in our lives, aren't we? Something that makes our day-to-day that little bit…
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Apple just dropped a new iPhone on us, and while it's really not that different from the phones they brought to market last year, people are still very excited about them. The iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max were introduced in Apple's yearly September keynote, and they're Apple's biggest phones…
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WhatsApp has become our go-to messaging service and nowadays anyone who doesn't have it is considered a little out of the loop. You still text? Get out of here! Allegedly used by up to one billion people every single day of the year, the app is now the world's most popular…
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There's nothing worse than the feeling of going through a major music drought. You know what I'm talking about; you're sick of hearing the same five songs over and over and over again. Maybe you listen to the radio in your car, and everything in the charts is boring you…
