Archive for February 20th, 2011
Dawn of double summertime as Coalition consider putting clocks forwards by two hours
Long lazy summer evenings could be on the way as ministers prepare to move Britain’s clocks forward by an hour.
The plan to bring in British Summer Time + 1 under a new ‘tourism strategy’ is backed by David Cameron, road safety campaigners and doctors.
‘Music of the stars’ now louder
The Kepler space telescope measures the sizes and ages of stars five times better than any other means – when it “listens” to the sounds they make.
Infinity chilli is now officially the world’s hottest
Measuring a mouth-burning 1.17 million on the Scoville Scale, this is the the hottest chilli in the world… and it was grown by accident in Lincolnshire.
New photo of ‘English Nessie’ hailed as best yet
his is believed to be the eighth sighting of a long humpbacked creature, known by local residents as ‘Bownessie’, in the past last five years.
