Popular Science News | Mosquitoes Get Round Nets

Popular Science News – the invention of the insecticide soaked bed net saved a million people from death from malaria. Unfortunately, this was relatively short-lived. It seems that the population of mosquitoes that fed at night dropped because they were missing out on food and they were then replaced by mosquitoes that fed earlier […]

Popular Science News | FaceBook Purges Fake Likes

Popular Science News – it seems that some groups set up FaceBook accounts and create fake ‘likes’ for their site in order to con users into believing the group is popular when it isn’t. Unfortunately, or fortunately, for those groups the day of reckoning is fast approaching. FaceBook is currently purging fake ‘likes’ from […]

Popular Science News | Fastest UK Electric Car

Popular Science News – the image of electric cars being slow has just taken a dive when the Nemesis, brainchild of Dale Vince, founder of green electricity company Ecotricity, broke the UK land speed record for an electric car. The previous record, set by Don Wales, the grandson of speed ace Malcolm Campbell 10 […]