ScienceBiscuit
In the event of a no-deal Brexit BMW are preparing to close their Mini plant in Oxford for one month to remove production line robots and convert to vehicle assembly by street urchins. The plant normally closes for a period every summer for maintenance, [read...]
If current negotiations with the European Space Agency are to break down, the government has given a glimpse of what the future might hold for British space endeavour. In a series of statements Her Majesty’s coffer-squatter Phillip Hammond has outlined an ambitious role for Britain to maintain its place in the queue at the cosmic enterprise buffet. [read...]
Google’s attempt to map the surface of the Earth for smartphone users to access half a dozen times then ignore, is near to completion. The project has been largely successful except for mapping the United Kingdom, [read...]
A man and woman found unconscious in Wiltshire may have come into contact with, what chemists are describing as a compound made from ‘Voldemort’s nose, Freddy Krueger’s finger nails and Nigel Farage’s bile duct’. The noxious substance is so deadly that it could destroy all life as we know it, [read...]
Contrary to popular misconception, these insights will not be high-resolution views of pubs; those are of course merely inn-sights. This new piece of mega-expensive high-tech kit will give the scientific community – and thus eventually us riffraff – [read...]
