TECHNOLOGY
Visual tricks appear to quicken downloads Don’t waste money boosting your network speeds: simple optical illusions can make it appear that downloads are happening far quicker
COLLIDERS
Rapper’s revenge – particle-physics-style Fermilab is getting up in the Large Hadron Collider’s face. A new rap video has been released that describes the prospects of finding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Illinois. The “LHC rapper” known as Alpine Kat, who arguably started the physics-rap genre with her own song in 2008, offers her verdict
GREEN MACHINE
A makeover for the internal combustion engine Even petrol-heads can…
