Popular Science News | Not Drinking Alcohol is Dangerous for You

Popular Science News – the headline is true but hides the truth. Over the last few decades there have been so many statistics about the dangers and benefits of alcohol that the truth has become obscured in figures. A new survey now sets the “safe” level of alcohol consumption at the equivalent of a […]

Popular Science News | Pirate Bay Torrent File Sharing

Popular Science News – the original idea of using a file sharing system called torrents was for large files to be shared between hundreds of different computer users, each of whom allows others to download tiny chunks of that file. Each torrent had initially been divided into thousands of parts and stored on the […]

Popular Science News | Waist Size Clue to Diabetes

Popular Science News – you used to have to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) in order to work out how obese you were, much to the dismay of short muscular athletes whose BMIs suggested they were overweight. Now it is much easier, although I doubt without problems, as all you have to do […]