There are 12 net contributors and 15 net recipients within the EU.(Net contributors receive less money from EU funds than they pay into the joint coffers. Net recipients receive more grants and benefits than they pay. The largest net contributors include Germany (at 9 billion euros), France (6.4 billion), Italy (5.9 billion), Great Britain (5.6 billion) and […]

Before you go off in a huff, love is a number - in tennis. (In France, where tennis became popular, the round nought on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for 'the egg.'  Legend has it that when tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (mis)pronounced it 'love.') More about numbers […]

You can fit over 3,200 22nm transistors across the diameter of an average human hair. (I haven't tried it, but Intel told me, so it must be true.)

According to research 6 × 8 is the hardest sum in the times table.

According to a study by MindFull, nearly a third of young people in the UK have contemplated or attempted suicide.