Phone, broadband and pay-TV providers will be forced to alert people when their current contract is coming to an end under new rules introduced this weekend. The new rule from regulator Ofcom, which comes into effect on Saturday, could save some households more than £150 a year. Ofcom says around 20 million customers are already … Read more
Google has added another 1,000 aerial images of some of the planet’s most beautiful landscapes captured from space to its Earth View gallery. The update – which is the biggest yet – takes the total collection to more than 2,500 photos, which can be viewed as an enormous gallery online. The imagery features more locations … Read more
Asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building that zipped past Earth last week has its own miniature MOON The bigger of the two discovered space rocks has a diameter of over 1,470 feet The smaller asteroid is in a 49 day orbit of its parent and has a 230ft diameter The pair flew past the … Read more
An injection of a hormone named after chocolate could boost men’s sex drive and improve their performance between the sheets, a study has found. Researchers found that the chemical made men more aroused when they were exposed to the smell of perfume or images of women’s faces. The hormone, kisspeptin — dubbed the ‘Viagra of the … Read more
NASA shortlists missions to map the surface of Venus, identify gases in its atmosphere, look for an ocean on Triton, and hunt for magma flows on Io. The four shortlisted projects will each get a $3 million NASA grant for a 9 month feasibility study before two will become actual missions and go to space. … Read more
Drunk people are equally ‘diverted’ by unattractive and attractive people, according to psychologists, offering evidence that beer goggles really do exist. British researchers carried out their study in ‘real-life drinking environments’ in bars and pubs in Lancashire. The study used more than 120 heterosexual participants, both sober and intoxicated, who were asked to perform a … Read more
A dinosaur footprint uncovered on a beach on the Isle of Wight by Storm Ciara belongs to a 130-million-year-old therapod, fossil hunters claim. The print is thought to have been left by a Neovenator — a carnivore that could reach 25 feet (7.6 m) in length and weigh up to 4,400 pounds (2,000 kg). The footprint … Read more
Palaeolithic rock art ‘sanctuary’ containing more than 100 fragile carvings of animals and abstract shapes revealed in a Spanish cave More than 100 pieces of cave art were found in the Cova de la Font Major The Catalonia site includes animals as well as abstract symbols and shapes Cave walls are soft and fragile and the artwork … Read more
Manta rays are believed to be some of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and have several traits and studies to support this claim. The large fish belong to a order known as Myliobatiformes which includes stingrays and other similar species and is a group closely related to that of sharks and are characterised by … Read more
Bidding for the only known ‘Nintendo-PlayStation’ prototype console – the result of a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony in 1991 – is already up to $350,000 (£268,000). The super-rare console, which is being sold with a Sony-branded SNES controller and cartridge that enables CD-Rom functionality, only went up for bids on Thursday. Potential buyers … Read more