Finland, Ireland, France: Which European countries have the most and least forests?

Hello goblins and ghouls. If you’re looking for some fresh frights this Halloween season, you’ve come to the right place. Rather than compile a list of the most well-known thrillers, which have lost their scare factor after repeated viewings, I have two dozen underrated gems to recommend for your streaming (screaming?) pleasure. The films below are the second half of my batch of witches’ brew; TechHive published the first half on October 26. The Exorcist IIIStream it on Amazon Prime Video 20th Century Fox With the new Exorcist movie recently in theaters, it’s time to revisit some of the earlie...

What if everything we experience in the world was nothing more than an elaborate simulated reality? The simulation hypothesis isn’t a novel idea and it’s enjoyed some mainstream appeal through movies like The Matrix and high-profile proponents like Elon Musk. Now a physicist working at the University of Portsmouth in the UK has published research in the AIP Advances journal that he says provides support to the strange theory. “I don't want to paraphrase Morpheus from The Matrix but he said 'what is real?'" the Associate Professor of Physics, Dr Melvin Vopson, said. "All the senses that we have...

However, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, only around 800 people - almost all of them dual nationals and a few dozen wounded, have been allowed to flee. It is the only route out of Gaza that is sometimes open: all of Gaza's other border crossings, which are controlled by Israel, are closed. For those trapped inside the Gaza Strip conditions are also steadily worsening. The average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour the United Nations had stockpiled in the region, yet the main refrain now being heard in the street is “Water, water,” the Gaza dire...