Sixty or so pounds doesn’t buy you much hotel-room square footage in central London – barely enough room to open a suitcase, it turns out. However, spend an extra £19,940 and you can spend the night in your very own wing, with seven bedrooms, a library – and your own postcode. This is what travel … Read more
Dino-mite find! Adorable baby dinosaur’s footprint discovered in China is just 6cm long and is the smallest stegosaur print EVER found Footprint was found in the Xinjiang Province in northwestern China by experts It measures just 2.24 inches (5.7cm) long and is thought to belong to a stegosaur Expect that the animal that made it was … Read more
French winemakers have suffered the worst frost damage to their crops since the 1990s as fears grow that grape vines could yield the smallest harvest for 40 years. The damage done by several nights’ of frost this week threatens to destroy grape harvests in some of the country’s best-known and prestigious wine-producing regions. Farmers across the country lit … Read more
Volkswagen has confirmed that it will sell a compact campervan model in the UK from a month’s time – and it will be priced at less than £30,000 and delivered in time for your 2021 summer staycation. The Caddy California, revealed by the German car manufacturer last year, is designed for holidaying couples, with the … Read more
Volkswagen has confirmed that it will sell a compact campervan model in the UK from a month’s time – and it will be priced at less than £30,000 and delivered in time for your 2021 summer staycation. The Caddy California, revealed by the German car manufacturer last year, is designed for holidaying couples, with the … Read more
More than 100 Royal Air Force planes and helicopters are to be scrapped as part of a defence revolution which will see most manned aircraft replaced by drones. The radical move to ground 114 fighter jets, intelligence and transport aircraft and helicopters last night raised questions over the UK’s ability to launch large-scale military operations. The … Read more
Scientists create the world’s smallest origami BIRD that is 20 times smaller than a grain of sand The tiny self-folding robot birds were made by experts from the United States Each is 60 microns wide and made from a sheet of material only 30 atoms thick The sheet is a ‘shape memory actuator’ which folds … Read more
Meet the world’s smallest giraffes! Two animals living in Africa were born with rare cases of dwarfism that stunted their growth to no more than nine feet tall – half of the average size Dwarfism is found among humans and animals in captivity due to inbreeding However, a team found the first cases in giraffes … Read more
An eye-opening food and drink tour of Cleethorpes, from the world’s smallest pub to cutting-edge cooking (it’s not all kiss-me-quick round these parts anymore) Rob Crossan finds that Cleethorpes is an alluring mix of trendy bars and restaurants and traditional offerings He pays a visit to extremely popular Signal Box Inn, which at 64 sq … Read more
Tiny wire that can be guided through the brain’s smallest blood vessels in surgery could help doctors treat neurological disorders Wire uses the flow of blood through vessels to create a smooth path Existing techniques require a doctor to push a wire through the body manually The new technique will allow clinicians to access all … Read more