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Oldest Spiderweb Was Laid 140 Million Years Ago

English researchers have recently announced that they managed to discover the oldest spiderweb ever to be included in the fossil record. University of Oxford paleontologist Martin Brasier was the lead researcher of a new investigations team that analyzed the pieces of amber found in Sussex, England. The investigators...

31 October 2009
14:51 GMT

Fear of Discrimination Alters Baby-Naming Trends

A new study seems to indicate the fact that, in the 19th century, Irish emigrants to England renounced baptizing their children with Catholic names such as Patrick and Bridget, our of fear that the English would discriminate against them. The research team, based at the Durham and Northumbria universities, says that ...

20 October 2009
20:11 GMT

Elizabeth I's Navy Was Years Ahead of Its Time

The reign of Elizabeth I of England (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603), other than helping the UK get past one of its major historical challenges, namely the battle against the Spanish Armada, also introduced some of the most important innovations in naval warfare. According to the latest scientific studies, ...

23 February 2009
03:32 GMT

Blue Light Can Prevent Crimes, Suicides, Car Crashes

In their strive to curb crimes, suicides and other misdemeanors, police departments from England and Japan have employed blue lighting in some of their worst-famed neighborhoods, as studies show that the color has a calming effect on people, who feel a bit uneasy by the unusual choice of lights and feel like they sho...

11 December 2008
06:26 GMT

New Game Unfairly Brings England to Euro 2008 in Detriment of Romania

The national football team of England didn't make it to Euro 2008, the famous European Championship which debuts today, the 7th of June. Everyone knows that, and everyone also knows that England was outrun by Croatia and Russia in the qualifying group E for the final Euro tournament. Thus, England stays home whi...

7 June 2008
08:41 GMT

Another GTA IV Bundle for PS3 Hits Europe

Yesterday we brought you the news of a Swedish website offering a GTA IV bundle for PlayStation 3, even though a Sony rep has said that it is nothing but "rumor or speculation". Still, more rumors and speculations can be seen today (and probably even more will follow), since a new GTA IV bundle showed up on UK websit...

9 April 2008
03:33 GMT

Why are England's Kids Illiterate? Because of Video Games Of Course

Well, it sure seems that video games are to blame for everything. Teens steal, break and enter and even kill other people, all this because of video games. Not because our ways of dealing with problems change from one day to the next, due to hundreds of influential factors, but because of video games.Why do they blam...

30 November 2007
03:40 GMT

England Failed to Qualify for EURO 2008 Because of Videogames

The statement from the title doesn't belong to a member of the NT. This is the honest opinion of Robert Green, West Ham's goalie, who probably hopes to make it into the national team's starting eleven some day. You might be wondering how exactly the videogames managed to stop England from losing 3-2 w...

27 November 2007
03:37 GMT


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