An international team of researchers led by Jane Greaves from Cardiff University has spotted phosphine, a rare and toxic gas, in the atmosphere of Venus suggesting that it may be home to alien life. They reported their findings in an article published in Nature Astronomy today. The sheer quantity of phosphine found on Venus cannot be…
Sir Terence Orby Conran, the innovative British designer who revolutionised retail and décor with his iconic Habitat stores died, aged 88. He promoted the best of British design, culture, and the arts around the world with a very simple belief that good design improves the quality of people’s lives.” His empire went on to span…
ARM Holdings, a UK-based computer chip designer, is at the heart of most smartphones, and other devices are being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia for £31.2bn ($40bn). Nvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain Arm’s brand and create “ the premier…
Disney is dropping $200million on war film, complete with balletic wire-work swordplay, wallrunning, fireworks, cannons, avalanches. “The money is on the screen” as they say, but not on the big screen, as Disney is asking for a one-off premium of £19.99 on their Disney+ subscription servicd in a bold decision doe is movie releases. Mulan…
REVIEW OF LUCID – When dreaming gives a young man wake up call. Available on Sky, Virgin, iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, Play Station, and Microsoft from September 7, 2020. Here is a story which breaks ground in some respects and has an angle of otherworldliness and fact merging with fiction in the script. Zel (Laurie Calvert…
Hippocrates is a celebrated worldwide father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, The ancient Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox’s book put Greek invention of medicine…
Acclaimed feminist writer Laura Bates exposes the community of men who hate women, going undercover, both on and offline, to explore the ideology and impact they have worldwide. She visited British schools almost weekly since founding the Everyday Sexism Project 2012 and later she found an increase in the number of students who are angry,…
After a decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, there has been a real transformation of the world order, with the nature of international relations and its rules are changing before our eyes. For India, this means optimal relationships with all major powers to best advance its goals. A good…
UK economy recovered half of GDP lost since the start of the pandemic lockdown, amid faster rate virus spreading with the R number rising from 1 to 1.2, as the government faces backlash on new curbs. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the UK “ has still only recovered just over half of…
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, Emma Peel in Avengers, Bond, and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones actress has died at the age of 82. Her daughter Rachael Stirling, said she died of cancer, after being diagnosed in March. “She spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter,…