The University of Waterloo has been recognized by Guinness World Records. The university’s Institute for Quantum Computing has created the world’s smallest national flag. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ granted the inaugural award for smallest national flag to the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at Waterloo for the flag measuring 1.178 micrometres in length. It is invisible without the aid of an …

Mel Gibson is expecting another child, his ninth, with his girlfriend of two years, Rosalind Ross. The two are expecting the baby by early next year, as confirmed by Gibson’s rep to People. Mel, 60, and equestrian-vaulter-turned-scriptwriter Rosalind, 26, met in early 2015, when she applied for a job at his production company. The baby will be the first child …

One of the benefits of using a VPN, apart from trying to skate around geofenced content, is to protect your privacy. There are plenty of VPN services out there, some of which are free, and some of which require users to pay a subscription. Now it looks like we’ll have one more option in the form of Opera. For those …

Twitter has announced that photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count towards your 140-character limit. The social media site said it wanted to give users the opportunity to say more and “simplify” the service. Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey has previously admitted the platform was too confusing for consumers. The site has also been plagued by …

Did NASA’s Curiosity Rover capture the image of a huge snake on #Mars? As #Mars Curiosity Rover continues its expedition on the planet Mars it sends back images to NASA and these images are posted online for all to see. The snake-like rock formation is one of hundreds of “discoveries” made every year by UFO enthusiasts. This time, however, the …

Pluto’s huge heart is perhaps the most distinctive feature glimpsed by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby last year. Despite being surrounded by a mottled terrain, this 1,000 mile region, known as Tombaugh Regio, is featureless, which, as NASA previously remarked, could be a sign of “ongoing geological processes.” Tanguy Bertrand and François Forget from Sorbonne University in France …

A new research suggests eight out of every ten young, indigenous people in Canada will develop Type 2 diabetes and half of young, non-indigenous Canadians will develop the disease in their lifetimes. About 8 of 10 First Nations people will develop diabetes at a young age, compared to roughly half of all Canadians, the University of Calgary researchers found. More …

Two groups both reported successfully teleporting state information across metro-scale fibre networks. A Chinese team is claiming a teleportation over a 30 km fibre in Haifei (the entanglement travelled nearly 16 km), while the University of Calgary used that city’s fibre network to carry entanglement 6.2 km. The ability to achieve quantum teleportation is an important benchmark for quantum-optical networks …

Justin Bieber amd Sofia Richie have reportedly split, after their brief summer fling. Pop singer Justin Bieber and his new girlfriend, Sofia Richie, have reportedly called it quits just six weeks after they were first spotted out and about together. A source close to the couple told Us Weekly that things had started “cooling off” between the lovebirds earlier this …

Researchers at the University of Alberta have precisely dated the world’s oldest rock unit at 4.02 billion years old. The ancient rock’s composition is different than scientists expected, suggesting the planet’s earliest continental crust was oceanic in structure and composition. “It gives us important information about how the early continents formed,” says lead author Jesse Reimink. “Because it’s so far …

GES, Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have announced that a new interactive travelling exhibition – AVATAR: Discover Pandora – will debut in Taipei, Taiwan on 7 December 2016. Inhabiting 12,000 square feet, the attraction will immerse visitors in Avatar’s settings (the Hallelujah Mountains, the Tree of Souls), wildlife (banshees, direhorses, viperwolves), and science (space travel, AMP suits) …