Banksy unmasked?
Even Banksy can鈥檛 hide from maths. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London used crime mapping techniques to home in on someone they believe to be the incognito artist. They mapped 140 Banksy murals in the UK to look for unusual correlations in the choice of location, then matched their findings with claimed addresses for Banksy. There appeared to be just one match (Journal of Spatial Science, ).
鈥淭he first email is completely forgettable鈥� and, therefore, forgotten鈥�
Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, on the contents of the first email message. Tomlinson died last week, aged 74
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Stretch 鈥榥鈥� glow
It鈥檚 tripping the light elastic. A new robot skin glows brighter the more it鈥檚 stretched. Developed at Cornell University in New York, it uses flexible capacitors to store energy, which is converted into light by stretching. The team says it could be useful for robots to change colour in response to a change in their surroundings 鈥� a human鈥檚 mood swings, for example.
