Popular Science News | Coal King by 2017

Popular Science News – the word on the street is that coal will be the king of fuels by 2017. The reason is that the price of coal has dropped making it a more attractive fuel than oil. In simple economics terms, the lack of popularity of coal has dropped the price making it […]

Popular Science News | The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer

[This article has been around for a long time and it is difficult to pin down its original source but, as it’s nearly Christmas, we’re repeating it in NCFP]

No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are […]

Popular Science News | Eyes in the Back of Your Head

Popular Science News – when I heard that a device called FlyVIZ had been developed that was the equivalent of having eyes in the back of your head, I remembered thinking that my mother already had one of them. She always seemed to be able to see what I was up to, even with […]