Daniel stared down at the thin blue object in his hand. It was the length of a pen but had only the thickness and weight of a piece of cotton. He tried to snap it in half but the strand only deflected slightly and then eased back into its original…

Mr Sharp peered through the darkness towards the sound of the approaching footsteps, a smile of knowing satisfaction spreading over his clean-cut features. He was born to be a senior-school teacher; he could read the minds of adolescents and he could outwit them at every step. …

We’ve all heard of Albert Einstein, the genius with the crazy hair who came up with a mind bending theory that nobody really understands. Most of us just know that it had something to do with the famous equation E=mc2 and was way ahead of its time. However, the fact…