Four-year-old ‘mirror-image’ twins do everything in precisely opposite ways

Four-year-old ‘mirror image’ twins do everything from parting their hair to holding a pen in precisely opposite ways.  Leah and Erin Sullivan, from Inverness, Scotland, are like ‘two sides of the same coin’ according to their mother Zoe, 42.  While Leah parts her hair on the left, Erin parts hers on the right and both … Read more

Scientists precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe for the first time

More than two thirds of the known universe is made up of ‘dark energy’ with just 31 per cent made up of matter – and most of that is made of ‘dark matter’, experts find.  Cosmologists from the University of California, Riverside, used a range of tools and a new ‘galactic orbit’ technique to calculate … Read more