After a successful campaign on the university's own crowdfunding site, the uni of York's AstroSoc sent a rubber duck to the edge of space on a weather balloon. As well a fun experiment in pushing bath toys to the limit, the stunt was designed to increase interest in astronomy during Science Week. Christened AstroDuck, the GoPro-equipped quacker took off…

Now here’s what I call multi-tasking: not only does the Nutshell isolation pod give you time out when the world around you gets too much, but it also makes you look like a complete weirdo. (I’m guessing fans of the Ostrich pillow will be rushing to snap one up.) Designed by Eden Lew, a masters…

They may have just won two byelections and gained their first parliamentary seats, but there's still a certain... stigma attached to being an out-and-proud UK Independence Party (UKIP) supporter. But Facebook's all-seeing eye means that there is an easy way of discovering the truth (because Facebook is a trusted source, obviously). As Political Scrapbook has found, there's a…

If you want to find out if your partner’s cheating, you’d better start rifling through his credit card receipts or work out the password to his phone quick smart, because you can be all but certain that his friends will never tell you. And the flip side is true, too: if you’re being unfaithful, your…

2015 is going to be a big year for democracy in the UK, because we finally get another chance to set things right and put our vote to good use. That's right, we get to decide which bird will step up and become our national avian mascot. Oh and apparently there's a General Election as…