A guest post courtesy of Matthew Halo Cattanach, who is set to breathe life into The Fox Gazette after a three-year hibernation! Drumroll please… Is there life on Mars? Has there been life on Mars? Do you stay awake at night pondering these questions? Perhaps you will soon sleep easy as scientists from the European…
What do martial art wielding nuns and CERN scientists have in common? Well, according to Gyalwang Drukpa, a Tibetan monk ranked second in Buddhist hierarchy only to the Dalai Lama, both delve into the secrets of cosmic energy. Just lust week Drukpa led a dozen nuns from an Asian Buddhist order to display “hand-chops, high-kicks…
During the 1970s, when Raleigh Chopper bicycles were in, Doctor Who was reaching its peak, Led Zeppelin were storming the world and love was on the rise, a curious thing happened. A space probe named the Voyager 1 was launched. However, unlike other pesky probes of its persuasion, this one was ladened with earthly recordings…
Long before the world of servility, time was found in the calibration of an individual or in the movement of the planets. Now, however, in a schedule obsessed society bound by clocks, comes the leap second. With the precise atomic clock came the discovery that the Earth’s rotation was slowing down. Meanwhile, time wasn’t, and…
The Baltic Sea is a cold, dark place that’s littered with ancient artefacts. Its attraction for treasure hunters has recently led to the sighting of a strange object on the ocean floor, 60 metres in diameter, sparking theories of a Baltic Sea UFO. Confident of debunking the theory, divers descended for a closer look. However,…
The moon has long intrigued the human race, with its nightly glow emanating arcane mysteries that span deep into Earth’s history. Ancient cultures have personified this great orb of night as a deity or other supernatural phenomenon, while philosophers Aristotle and Pliny the Elder believed it produced irrationality and insanity in the susceptible. This, they…