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Is Instagram biased towards Trump? Firm blames a ‘bug’ for promoting negative hashtags for Biden – while the Facebook-owned firm hid the same ones for the president – and now claims its fixed Instagram has disabled its ‘related hashtags on its platform as of Tuesday The move follows a report that suggests the firm was … Read more
A shaving razor that doesn’t blunt could be on the horizon after scientists discover human hair can ‘chip’ metal blades, despite being 50 times softer than steel. In shaving experiments, engineers closely studied shaving in ultra-fine detail with an electron microscope to see how a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair. … Read more
DNA from an unknown ancient ancestor of humans that once bred with Denisovans still exists among people today, study reveals Researchers from the US developed a new tool to analyse ancient DNA Three per cent of the Neanderthal genome can from an ancient human group This genetic transfer is thought to have occurred some 300,000 years ago Also, … Read more
Archaeologists have rewritten the history books over when humans first arrived in the Americas, shifting the date of the initial migration 15,000 years back in time. Excavations in a cave in Mexico called Chiquihuite revealed archaeological evidence of human occupation dating back up to 27,000 years. But computer analysis further pushes this date back, with the … Read more
Lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars are so large they could host entire planetary bases for future space exploration, planetary scientists claim. Researchers at the Universities of Bologna and Padua studied the subsurface cavities that lava created billions of years ago under the surface of Mars and the Moon. These cavities … Read more
The ‘brightest material on Earth’ has been created after researchers found a way to stop fluorescent molecules fading when they are transferred to a solid state. University of Copenhagen and Indiana University scientists created the new bright substance – that has a brilliant glow – from positively charged fluorescent dyes. Dyes tend to undergo ‘quenching’ … Read more
Thousands of giant planets or ‘blanets’ surround black holes, made up from the void’s whirling dust, say scientists Experts believe there could be thousands of exoplanets in black hole safe zones Called ‘blanets,’ the team believes these formations live outside the snow-line Blanets could form from ice-covered dust particles circling the black hole Researchers speculate … Read more
WHAT CAUSED THE HEATWAVE? The heatwave was triggered by the build-up of high pressures over Europe over the past few days, leading to the northward movement of warm air from Europe over the UK. ‘At this time of year southerly winds will always lead to above average temperatures,’ said University of Reading meteorologist Peter Inness. ‘Air from … Read more
A 242 million-year-old reptile with a neck three times the length of its torso lived in the ocean, a 3D skull reconstruction reveals. Scientists describe the weird 20-foot-long creature and its incredible giraffe-like neck as a ‘paleontological absurdity’. Fossils of the creature, belonging to the Tanystropheus genus, were discovered back in 1852 and have been puzzling … Read more
The ‘brightest material on Earth’ has been created after researchers found a way to stop fluorescent molecules fading when they are transferred to a solid state. University of Copenhagen and Indiana University scientists created the new bright substance – that has a brilliant glow – from positively charged fluorescent dyes. Dyes tend to undergo ‘quenching’ … Read more