Without wanting to be too disparaging about this game... There is no skill in choosing the box whatsoever, so this aspect of the game cannot be influenced by any legal tactic. Here are two approaches to the game which, although they may not help you... (read more)

How about this for an expensive dustbin then: The Automated Transfer Vehicle or ATV spacecraft Edoardo Amaldi which has been used for around 4 years to transport essential... (read more)

YES! At 0532 GMT August 6 2012 NASA landed their biggest ever probe on Mars. In what was described as "Seven minutes of terror" by the NASA scientists the probe entered the Martian atmosphere and successfully landed. It was one of the most complex... (read more)

Traditional tattooing is a permanent coloration of the skin by injecting a coloured pigment into the dermis, a layer of skin that exists between the thinner outer Epidermis and the subcutaneous layer consisting mostly of fat tissue. Henna tattooing uses... (read more)

The Logo used during the 2012 Olympics was designed by Wolff Olins and unveiled in 2007. Prior to that their was an Olympic 2012 logo used for the bidding process, this was designed by Kino Design. (read more)

An archeological expedition in 1991 on the Austria / Italy border discovered a 5,200 year old 'Ice man' (named Ötzi) showing the earliest known tattoos. He predated the previous early examples, found in Egypt, by a millennium. (read more)

The first recorded example, according to the Internet seems to be 1637. It is very unlikely that this was the first time it was used, and how can we be sure it meant what we take it to mean now. Many reasons are speculated as to why this came about,... (read more)

101 episodes have been recorded over 5 series. The 24th episode of the 5th series will be broadcast on the 10 May. The first series had 17 episodes. The second had 23 episodes. The third had 23 episodes The fourth had 24 episodes The fifth had 24 episodes.... (read more)

The next generation Wii, the Wii U has a planned US release date of 18 November. Typically the release date is a week later in Japan. The UK is likely to share the release date with the US. UK release date 18 November 2012. (read more)

Sony have announced their next generation Playstation gaming console, and named it Orbis. Rumour has it that the release date is 'late 2012', despite this being just a rumour it does tie in with Sony's previous release pattern of a six year interval... (read more)

The three biggest gaming console manufacturers have each announced the next generation console names. Nintendo's upgrade to the Wii will be called the 'Wii U' Sony have announced the 'Playstation 4' will be called 'Orbis' Microsoft are hoping to... (read more)

The largest feathered animal in existence is the ostrich. However a recent discovery in northeastern China by a team led by Xing Xu of the (read more)

Strangely, it is true. Until quite recently there was no scientific explanation as to why. There have been many reasons suggested from 'natural balance being restored' to 'divine intervention'. However Corry... (read more)

The various 'Population Clocks' on the internet vary by around 150 million a percentage of 2.2%, even then these are statistically calculated numbers and who trusts statistics? That being said there seems no better way of working it out so here goes!... (read more)

We have sent unmanned probes onto the surfaces of Venus (USSR 1966), Mars (USSR 1971) and Mercury (US 2008). A probe reached Jupiter (US 1972) but it is a gas giant so there is nothing to actually land on, a further probe descended into it's centre and... (read more)

There have been a total of 45 missions that have reached the moon: 25 sent up by the US, 6 of them manned14 missions executed by the USSR3 in the Japanese programand 1 each for the European Space Agency, India and China.... (read more)

Several nations, either individually or as joint efforts have landed on the moon in various ways. The first man made object to touch the moon was the Soviet craft Luna 2 which was intentionally crash landed in 1959, it took another three years... (read more)

It is impossible to answer this one as figures on who has watched a film would be impossible to collect. Hollywood likes to talk about money grossed rather than bums in seats (or indeed any quantative measure of enjoyment). So although the highest grossing... (read more)

The speed you have to travel to escape the earth's gravitational pull is often incorrectly known as the escape velocity, true it is the speed required to escape the Earth's pull but the term velocity requires direction as well... (read more)

I love this question because the answer is so easily understood - with diagrams of course! Imagine... (read more)