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Monday, August 28, 2017

Oil and Water Combine Together under High Pressure

We all know that Oil and water are famed for not mixing, but scientists have now discovered they can be forced to combine under special conditions. A new study suggests that some oily molecules, which normally repel water, can be made to dissolve in the liquid when the two substances are squeezed...

iPhone 8 Creating Worldwide Shortage of DRAM & NAND chips

Component orders for the iPhone 8 are creating a worldwide shortage of DRAM and NAND chips, with competitors struggling to secure their own supplies, says a report. Some competitors are placing orders well before they need the chips, others are paying premiums to ensure a supply and - in the worst...

Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has invited interested clubs to make a formal offer for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The Gabon international has been heavily linked with a move away from Signal Iduna Park with the likes of Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester...

'He Is A Top Player!' - Swansea Will Move for Chelsea Captain John Terry

Swansea City will make an attempt to sign Chelsea captain John Terry, manager Paul Clement has confirmed. Clement revealed last month he would explore the possibility of signing the 36-year-old if his side secured Premier League safety, which they have now done after Hull City's relegation. Terry,...

Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Watch video on Youtube: he...

Trump's approval which was assumed to have a lower limit of 40%, has now cracked that floor. His latest average approval rating is at 39.9% according to Nate Silver's Fivethirtyeight website. Worse, 48% of Americans would support his impeachment. These polls were conducted before the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is ready to provide US Congress with a transcript of the talks between President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Speaking at a press conference in Sochi, Russia, Putin said the transcript could be provided if the White...

For the first time, an extremely rare ant has been seen alive. Tyrannomyrmex rex (T. rex for short) had eluded scientists since 2003, when entomologist Fernando Fernández revealed that a single dead ant from Malaysia represented a never-before-seen ant genus. The ant’s tiny mandibles reminded Fernández...

Real Madrid 2-1 Valencia: Marcelo The Unlikely Hero After Ronaldo Misses Penalty

Marcelo proved an unlikely hero as Real Madrid snatched a wonderful and dramatic 2-1 win over Valencia at Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday. The full-back fired home with four minutes of normal time to spare after Dani Parejo had cancelled out Cristiano Ronaldo's 20th LaLiga goal of the season. Also,...

Fast & Furious will receive the Generation Award at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards on May 7, marking the first time the award show will give the honor to a film franchise rather than an individual actor. Fast & Furious star and producer Vin Diesel will accept the award alongside his...

Turkey has blocked all access inside the country to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Officials said "an administrative measure" had been taken, but gave no reason why. Turkish media said authorities had asked Wikipedia to remove content by writers "supporting terror". Turkey has temporarily...

Google and Facebook Scammed Out Of $100M but say that money was recovered: Google and Facebook were scammed out of a total of $100M by a crook sending fake invoices purporting to be from Taiwanese server supplier Quanta Computer, reports Fortune. The scam was allegedly carried out by a Lithuanian...

The US Embassy said in statement on Friday that the additional funding would bring the total U.S. humanitarian contribution in Nigeria to more than $298m since October 2015. The funding, according to it, is in response to dire humanitarian crisis in the North East as a result of years of brutality...

Manchester United has revealed plans to honour Nigerian football fans who died last week following an accident in the south-eastern city of Calabar. The tragedy, which claimed the lives of at least seven people, happened when an electric cable fell on fans watching a Manchester United match on...

Antonio Conte insists Eden Hazard is not looking to leave Chelsea, but admits he cannot make any guarantee with Real Madrid interested in a big money move for him. Chelsea prepare for a difficult test away to Everton this weekend with Tottenham only four points behind in second. Conte says Hazard...

"Why is the president hiding his state of health? He's supposed to understand he's public property, me I'm still private property, that's why I'm not in Aso Rock," said Mr. Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel laureate for literature. Watch YouTube video he...

Why Oba Of Lagos 'Snubbing' Ooni Of Ife Shocked Nigeria

At a recent public event a Yoruba leader, known as the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu ,74, refused to properly greet the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi 42. Though there are various interpretations by historians and scholars on the origins of Yoruba people, the Ooni of Ife is widely acknowledged...

Paul Pogba, James Rodriguez and Mario Balotelli all benefit from having "a very good agent", according to Antonio Cassano, who says the three players are overrated. The Manchester United, Real Madrid and Nice stars are all managed by Mino Raiola. Cassano told Gazzetta dello Sport: "Three...

One of the most iconic pieces of software design ever is the Clippy (or Clippit) assistant that was baked into Microsoft Office up until 2007. Now, the original illustrator of Clippy, Kevan Atteberry, has sat down with Motherboard for a full interview. Microsoft and the designers worked with social...

Heavy bleeding after giving birth is the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide, killing more than 100,000 women each year. Around six percent of women suffer from postpartum hemorrhaging (PPH) - uncontrollable bleeding after giving birth. A trial involving 20,000 women in 193 hospitals across...

Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante is in the running to add the best French player abroad award to his PFA Player of the Year prize. Kante has been named on a four-man shortlist for the Trophees UNFP du football prize alongside Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, Real Madrid striker...

The Nigeria Police Force says it has launched a manhunt for Inusa Saidu Biu, a riot policeman, who threatened to kill 200 persons if ailing President Muhammadu dies. If truly he is still serving in the Nigeria Police Force, I think he needs to be picked up and prosecuted in order to serve as...

An Israeli missile strike has caused a large explosion and fire at a military site near Damascus international airport. A fuel tank and warehouses were damaged. But Syrian rebel sources said an arms depot run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in Syria as an ally of the government,...

Josep Maria Bartomeu will go on trial for fraud and corruption over Barcelona's signing of Neymar from Santos after his latest appeal was rejected. The National Court confirmed the former vice-president's case will go ahead, ruling that his position gave him the same responsibilities as then-president...

Wenger 'Sure' Arsenal Won't Sell Alexis Sanchez to Premier League Rival

Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger is "sure" Arsenal will not sell Alexis Sanchez to a Premier League rival, emulating Robin van Persie's switch to Manchester United in 2012. The Chilean forward continues to be heavily linked with a summer transfer away from Emirates Stadium as he prepares to enter the...

Disney just announced the release dates for some of their most highly anticipated upcoming movies! Films among the release dates revealed include Frozen 2, the live-action adaptation of The Lion King as well as A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time: March 9, 2018 Magic Camp: April 6, 2018 Ralph...

FG Starts Replacement Of Obsolete Aircraft At College Of Aviation

The Federal Government says it will soon phase out the obsolete trainer aircraft at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this information during the handover of the DA42NG aircraft from Interjet Nigeria Limited...

The photos — that were leaked by Benjamin Geskin on Twitter, who claims to have a source with connections to Apple supplier Foxconn — suggest that a big update to the iPhone 7 could be on the way. However, it's worth stressing that there's no way of knowing for certain whether the images of Apple's...

Pre-orders for the S8 and S8+ were up by 30 percent from last year's number of reservations for the S7 and S7 Edge, according to a statement Samsung provided us via email. While concrete sales numbers weren't disclosed, the company said the S8 had the most successful pre-sale period for a smartphone...

Watch Twitter Video: here In a recent interview, Saldana revealed that the Guardians of the Galaxy cast just finished filming the third Avengers film, Infinity War, and that they'll have to come back to work on the fourth Avengers film later this year. "I think that the Guardians just shot...

Henry Cavill was hard at work on the set of M:I 6 - Mission Impossible! The 33-year-old actor was seen filming alongside co-star Tom Cruise at the Gare d'Austerlitz on Monday (April 24) in Paris, France. The movie is set to hit theaters on July 27, 2018. ...

Eden Hazard says he does not see himself as a suitable candidate to replace John Terry as the Premier League leaders' captain next season. John Terry will leave Stamford Bridge at the end of the 2016-17 campaign, meaning Antonio Conte will have to name a new first-choice skipper. Gary Cahill...

US astronaut Peggy Whitson Breaks American Spaceflight Record

U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson is smashing records left and right. Whitson, 57, broke the record for the most cumulative time in space by an American astronaut early Monday, streaking past the 534-day record held by Jeff Williams. The 879-day global record, held by Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka,...

The world's first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in three countries - Ghana, Kenya and Malawi - starting in 2018. The RTS,S vaccine trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquito bites. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the jab had the potential...

Whistle-blowing in Nigeria is now being extended beyond financial crimes, to illegal ownership of small arms and light weapons. The Presidency has started drawing up the rules of a whistle-blower mechanism to throw a spotlight on the regime of gun ownership and control in the country. The move...

Cesc Fabregas has urged Chelsea colleague Eden Hazard to be more selfish and close the gap on the world's best player, Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Fabregas certainly has him in that bracket, with a man who has played alongside some of the finest talent on the planet of the opinion that the 26-year-old...

N'Golo Kante has been named the PFA Players' Player of the Year after a formidable debut season at Chelsea, while Dele Alli of Tottenham has retained the Young Player of the Year award. France international Kante has enjoyed an incredible rise in English football after joining Leicester City from...

'Deadpool 2' Gets June 2018 Release Date!

The upcoming film, starring Ryan Reynolds, is set to hit theaters on June 1, 2018. While there aren't any other films set to open on June 1, there are going to be lots of sequels and remakes released in the weeks following. Ocean's 8 and Transformers 6 both are scheduled for June 8, The Incredibles...

The 74-year-old Nigerian leader was only seen in public once throughout last week, when he joined other Muslim faithful for a Juma'at service on Friday at a mosque located near his office inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. One of our correspondents reported that, although some government officials...

The Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, said on Saturday that the telecommunications company has rolled out Fourth Generation (4G) wireless mobile telecommunications technology in Nigeria. Ogunsanya said in a statement in Lagos that the roll out of the technology was in partnership...

North Korea reiterated its vow to launch "full-out war" with nuclear weapons on Saturday as an American naval strike carrier was set to arrive off the tense Korean peninsula in a matter of days. Tensions between the United States and the North have soared in recent weeks as a series of North Korean...

Marvel Confirms That Avengers 4 is The End Of An Era

Marvel is making it official: 2019's Avengers 4 will be the end of an era for the MCU. The Marvel Cinematic Universe's signature thus far has been distinct Phases for its superhero blockbusters, designed to build up to the events of The Avengers, Age of Ultron and Avengers 4 respectively. However,...

In 1975, Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Medici Chapels museum in Florence, stumbled upon a Renaissance treasure - a trapdoor hidden beneath a wardrobe near the New Sacristy, a chamber designed to house the ornate tombs of Medici rulers. Below the trapdoor, stone steps led to an oblong...

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