WEIRD WORLD

MUSCLING IN: An artificial muscle that lifts 1,000 times its own weight could pave the way for lifelike robots that make Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator look puny. Scientists used a 3D printing technique to create the rubberlike synthetic muscle that expands and contracts like its biological counterpart. Heated by a small electric current, the material was capable of expanding to nine times its normal size. In tests it demonstrated enormous strength, having a strain density – the amount of energy stored in each gram of a stretched elastic body – 15 times greater than natural muscle.

ZEROEING IN : When are four zeroes worth 5,000 US dollars? When four zeroes are the winning numbers in a Michigan lottery. Some 1,079 players had winning tickets in Michigan’s Daily four game. Each ticket is worth 5,000 dollars. It is the first time that four zeroes were drawn in the game, which has been played since 1981.

WOE SELECTOR :

Craig David is the most dangerous celebrity to search for online in the UK, according to cybersecurity giant McAfee. The annual survey analyses the celebrities whose names are the most likely to be used by cybercriminals to try to lure web users to malicious websites or click on links to malicious software. Fellow singers Emeli Sande, Liam Payne, Adele and Ed Sheeran completed the top five.

UNDERSEA TOMB :

An intact German First World War submarine containing the bodies of 23 people has been found off the coast of Belgium, authorities said. Carl Decaluwe, the governor of Western Flanders, said that the find on the floor of the North Sea “is very unique”. “It’s quite amazing that we found something like this,” Mr Decaluwe said.