Physics

SCIENCE

Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg back tiny spaceships project

Digital Desk - Apr 13, 2016

Physicist Stephen Hawking, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner have announced a project that could send microscopic spaceships to hunt...

SCIENCE

The ‘leap second’ explained in numbers

Digital Desk - Jun 30, 2015

Science hardly gets more technical than the “leap second”. This is when clocks will momentarily freeze to realign the Earth’s slowing rotation with our...