London, Sept 18 : An average British adult absorbs 13 facts a day, a new research shows.

According to the study by telecom giant TalkTalk, some knowledge-hungry folk do better still, taking in up to 20 tidbits, ranging from pop gossip to politics, from the hundreds of news items that bombard them every day.

The study found that true ‘infomaniacs’ comb the web for news updates six times a day or more. But the average mind filters it all down to the 13 items it considers most important.

"We''re all exposed to a huge wealth of information every day which makes us better informed than ever about what''s going in the world,” the Mirror quoted TalkTalk''s Dominic Stinton, as saying.

London, September 18 : Electrical cars may soon have their batteries replaced by ultracapacitors that can store much higher amounts of energy, thanks to a new approach developed by Chinese researchers.

Hao Zhang at the Research Institute of Chemical Defence, and research collaborators from Peking University in Beijing say that this purpose can be served by creating nanoscale meadows of fuzzy flowers of manganese oxide (MnO), a material with a much greater capacity for ions than activated carbon.

In model created by the researchers, each flower attaches to at least two of the blades of grass that act like electron superhighways, forming strong electrical connections to the flowers.

London, Sept 18 : Babies as young as one can pass on useful information, claim German scientists, who added that infants are excellent communicators.

To reach the conclusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute asked 49 one-year-olds to help their parent find an object that had fallen out of sight while the adult wasn’t looking.

Most of the toddlers were able to help their parent.

“One-year-olds, before they have language skills, can point informatively and communicate appropriately for ignorant adults,” the Daily Express quoted the report, as stating.

In another experiment the parent saw the object fall – and the babies knew they didn’t need to help.

London, September 18 : Two divers have claimed to have found the Nancy shipwreck of 1784, which has eluded treasure hunters for more than 200 years.

The whereabouts of The Nancy, which sank off the western shores of the Isles of Scilly in 1784, has long remained a mystery.

The loss of the ship was all the more tragic because on board was Ann Cargill, a famous 18th century opera singer who was returning from India with her illegitimate child.

Her body - still clutching the baby - was recovered and then buried, but the wreck of the The Nancy was never traced.

A total of 49 people were on board the London bound vessel when it got into difficulty during a violent storm. It was thought she broke up as she sank.

London, September 18 : A marble sculpture of Jesus Christ laden with diamonds, rubies and pearls, which is claimed to be worth 70 million pounds, is being offered to Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, UK, by a mysterious reclusive artist.

According to a report in the Telegraph, created by Kongthin Pearlmich, the sculpture is made up of three panels each bearing a sculpture of Christ on the cross.

The work, entitled ‘The Man Delusion’, appears to be a riposte to the book ‘The God Delusion’ by the atheist academic Richard Dawkins.

Little is known about the artist, who is said to be a reclusive British artist of East Asian origin in his 60s, who only sells to a handful of private clients.

London, Sept. 18 : The Gordon Brown Government has confirmed the loss of a laptop that contained the names, addresses, and in some cases dates of birth and National Insurance numbers of 486 directors and employees of 122 failed companies.

They were stolen from an office at the Insolvency Service, The Telegraph reported.

The paper quoted a spokesman of the service as saying that the police are investigating the theft, which occurred on August 27 at its offices in Manchester.