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While living in London I have made it one of my aims to just do as much as possible! I'm lucky enough to be living in this amazing city with so much going on around me and I want to experience it all. To facilitate in doing this I have a list on my notes app titled "London Bucket List"which I have complied from a mix of things my friends have, told me about, ads I've seen on the tube, and stuff i've seen on TikTok - which I some what reluctantly admit is my main source of ins

Big G (the universal gravitational constant) is one of the most widely known values in physics, and one of the first you learn at school. It determines the strength of attraction between two masses and applies anywhere in the entire universe. Scientists have been trying to measure the exact value of Big G for over 225 years (since Isaac Newton first suggested the concept of gravity) but still its value remains one of the least well known out of nature's fundamental forces. In

Daylight savings: the extra hour of sleep we get as the clocks fall back every autumn, and the hour we lose as they leap forwards every spring. I grew up in the UAE, a country whose proximity to the equator means it does not operate a daylight savings system, so the concept was something I only came across when I moved to the UK for uni 5 years ago. And, if I'm being honest I never thought much about it until I came across an article on EuerkAlert! detailing the potential i