If God broke the laws of physics, would scientists even notice? The multiverse Many cosmologists believe that the universe may be part of a more extended cosmos,a multiverse, where many different universes co-exist but don’t interact. The idea of the multiverse is backed by thetheory of inflation– the idea that the universe expanded hugely before it was 10-32seconds old. Inflation is an important theory because it can explain why the universe has the shape and structure that we see around us....

Facebook just become slightly morbid with the launch of a new app that allows you to record a message that will be shared with your friends and family only when you die. A very strange concept indeed, but while death is not something we all want to think about too often it is something that we all eventually have to deal with. If I Dieis seeking to tap in to the macabre market of death....

Now that the world has had more than a survivable dose of ‘Metro,’ Microsoft’s new pan-empire design initiative, people outside the company are starting to jump onto the firm’s bandwagon. One Chris Preston put together what might be our favorite piece fan fiction that we have seen in recent months. Preston took Steam, the popular games client, and ran it through the mechanics of Metro. What came out the other end is simply stunning....

I love reading books and that’s why I have a membership card for my city’s public library. Do I visit it often? No, I don’t.I’m normally too busy or lazy to leave the house just for that. For the same reasons, I have a stash of books that I did manage to borrow from the library, which I return long after the due date and end up paying some pretty big fines....

Have you ever wondered how the UK’s monthly Internet usage would look if it was condensed into a single hour? No, neither had we. But the infographic below, based on data fromExperian Hitwise, does exactly that, and it is interesting to see how we’re all whiling our time away on the Web. In August 2011, the UK Internet populace spent 3.4bn hours online, and through combining visit data with the average visit session time Hitwise has distilled the whole month’s usage into a single hour:...