Bad month

VIDEO ASSISTANT REFEREES

The VAR needs glasses! After analysing 600,000 tweets made during 129 Premier League games, a team at the Technical University of Munich found that the general mood of comments dropped for 20 minutes following decisions made by VAR.

ALIEN HUNTERS

Don’t bank on meeting ET anytime soon. Researchers at the University of Oxford have theorised that the emergence of life on Earth was due to a series of highly unlikely ‘evolutionary transitions’. It turns out that we’re rather special.