On the way to and from work each day, I keep being overtaken by these kids gliding past me. The first time I did a double take, but then I realised that they were wearing shoes with wheels in the bottoms of them – a kind of trainer-cum-rollerskate. Judging by the number I’ve seen, these [...]
The science story of the week this week was the discovery of a fossil of a new species of fish that has both elbow and wrist joins, but also fish-like fins. The report was published in the Nature journal (‘The fish that crawled out of water‘), and was picked up by most of the newspapers [...]