RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: In what universe does closing the hospitality sector ‘protect the economy’?

Grim Reaper Matt Hancock prefaced his Commons announcement of yet another ruinous lockdown in London, Hertfordshire and Essex with a blood-curdling warning about a new super strain of coronavirus which has just been identified by ‘the science’. Presumably, this ingenious variant only attacks people in pubs not gyms, and restaurants not shops. Even so, it’s … Read more

Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris enjoys a day at the beach in Sydney

Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris flaunts her bikini body during a day at the beach in Sydney with her husband Andrew Papadopoulos By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:52 GMT, 16 November 2020 | Updated: 04:22 GMT, 16 November 2020 Renae Ayris made the most of the warm weather in Sydney on … Read more

Heat maps of the universe reveal cosmic gases are 10 TIMES hotter than it was 10 billion years ago 

Heat maps of the universe reveal cosmic gases are 10 TIMES hotter today than it was 10 billion years ago As the universe expands, it drags matter into new stars and galaxies Cosmic gasses around objects increase in temperature along the way The mean temperature of those gasses has risen tenfold over 10 billion years … Read more

Historian explains how randomness rules both the universe and our lives

SCIENCE A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS by Sean B. Carroll (Princeton University Press £18.99, 224 pp) Sixty-six million years ago, the world nearly came to an end. An asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with devastating global effects. The dinosaurs were effectively wiped out. Mammals, better equipped to survive, were able to take their … Read more

Another universe existed before the Big Bang – and ‘black holes could hold proof it its existence’

Stephen Hawking probed the very limits of human understanding both in the vastness of space and in the bizarre sub-molecular world of quantum theory.  As well as numerous best-selling books, Hawking also published several important scientific papers during an illustrious research career. Through his groundbreaking theories, the legendary physicist examined the origins of the universe … Read more

Miss Universe Australia Olivia Rogers shares harrowing photographs from eating disorder journey

‘I was starving myself’: Former Miss Universe Australia Olivia Rogers shares harrowing photographs of when she was in the grips of her eating disorder – after revealing her weight plunged to just 49 kilograms By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:15 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 12:16 BST, 5 October 2020 Olivia … Read more

Scientists precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe for the first time

More than two thirds of the known universe is made up of ‘dark energy’ with just 31 per cent made up of matter – and most of that is made of ‘dark matter’, experts find.  Cosmologists from the University of California, Riverside, used a range of tools and a new ‘galactic orbit’ technique to calculate … Read more

One of the ‘most extreme planets in the universe’ orbits its star every 2.7 days

A ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet with a surface temperature hot enough to vaporise iron has been dubbed ‘one of the most extreme planets in the universe’ by astronomers. Using data from the European Space Agency CHEOPS space telescope, astronomers from the University of Bern studied the orbit, size and temperature of WASP-189b. The planet, 322 light … Read more

Jonathan Majors joins Marvel Cinematic Universe with lead role in upcoming Ant-Man movie

Jonathan Majors joins Marvel Cinematic Universe with lead role in upcoming Ant-Man movie By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 20:09 BST, 14 September 2020 | Updated: 20:09 BST, 14 September 2020 He gained a massive fanbase with a starring role in HBO’s hit series, Lovecraft Country.  And Jonathan Majors is set to take his talents … Read more

Physics: controversial theory argues that the entire universe is a neural network 

The universe could be a neural network — an interconnected computational system similar in structure to the human brain — a controversial theory has proposed. As created by computer scientists, artificial neural networks are made up of various nodes — equivalent to biological neurons — that process and pass on signals. The network can change as … Read more