It's not so easy to just convert some old tanks to storing hydrogen. Hydrogen is highly corrosive and eats through many metals. Leaks are extremely dangerous as hydrogen needs very little to explode, contrary to petrol which isn't nearly as flammable.

Also, I don't understand your argument about not needing many refeuling stations with a 300 mile range. Most petrol or diesel cars have a better range than that, mine easily does more than 600, yet look how many gas stations there are. Electric vehicles need less recharging stations because most people can recharge at home. Recharging hydrogen at home would be a bad idea: the smallest, odorless leak can blow up whole houses. If you start equipping millions of homes with hydrogen filling stations, you'll have explosions pretty much every day. And anyway, making hydrogen with electricity is extremely inefficient, about a third as efficient as charging a lithium battery. Almost all commercial hydrogen comes from fossil fuel sources (mostly natural gas).

But you can inhale it and get a really funny voice!

The problem is that creating hydrogen by splitting water using electricity is highly inefficient, MUCH less efficient than storing electricity in a lithium battery, so the vast majority of hydrogen is made from fossil fuels. And that's precisely the dependence we were supposed to try and get rid of.

That would have made a much better headline!

I can only imagine the thought that went into the "diamond" headline. "Hmmm, our readers are never going to understand this, let's see if we can dumb it down. Hmmm... we'll definitely keep "nano". Carbon is not sexy enough, can we compare it to something else made of carbon?... Diamond! What about diamond nanothreads? Perfect!

Meanwhile the researchers can't believe what they're reading.

I was already wondering what had happened to all the hydrogens in C6H6. Now I know.

So now Higgs and Englert are in a superposition of having deserved the nobel prize and not having deserved it, right?

So what they should have done, is make a theory that says the Higgs Boson does not exist, and then prove that theory wrong. That would have been airtight.

Type "These are not the" in Google, and it will autocomplete it to "These aren't the droids you're looking for".

Any dictator worth his salt surely gets more than 100% of the vote.

Even more surprising is that, apparently, 30 is less than 3% of 700.

Not really, but anyway, it's as good an excuse as any to finally get rid of all this social media crap.

Actually, the question was "suspected ebola carriers in the US..." so I answered "should be locked in regular hospitals" which seems rather obvious to me.

But of course someone who worked with Ebola patients and is showing no symptoms, is not a "suspected ebola carrier". I think they'll have enough common sense to stay away from others if they start feeling at all ill, so no other measures should be necessary. But once again, that was not the question.

Fat chance, instead of more legroom they'll just put in more seats.

And you can bet they'll replace the camera feed with commercials once you're at cruising altitude. Even worse, companies like Ryanair will remove the cameras altogether and just display ads continuously.

Of course nobody will want that. But hey, the ticket is 10 euros cheaper, stampede!

Well, clouds are pretty wet, so I imagine cloud computers need some pretty good waterproofing. Maybe send an e-mail to Google, Amazon or Apple and ask what solution they use.

Now some American is no doubt going to jump in by saying the inch was at one point in history defined as the average width of a male thumb (before they changed it back to 3 grains of barley) and this is therefore obviously the best measure for touchscreens...

Or much simpler (on a Mac, anyway), turn full disk encryption off and then on again. You can even continue to work while it's rewriting the entire disk.