Dinosaur fossil from 98 million-years-ago unearthed in Argentina may have been the largest animal to ever walk the Earth, study claims The fossil remains — including tail and pelvic bones — were uncovered in 2012 The giant titanosaur sauropod dinosaur would have had a long neck and tail It was preserved in a muddy floodplain in what … Read more
AI chipmaker Graphcore attracts funding to the tune of £165m as global investors back Bristol-based unicorn Bristol-based Graphcore was begun in 2016 by Simon Knowles and Nigel Toon Its latest funding round was led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pensions Plan Board Back in July, the business released its latest-generation AI chip, the GC2000 By Harry … Read more
Britain’s biggest family The Radfords – with 22 kids – unwrapped presents together in sweet footage from Christmas Day. The Christmas video – showing mother Sue opening a ‘massive’ gift – also gave a glimpse of the family’s piles of gifts that were under their huge tree. Noel Radford, 49, shares 22 children with his … Read more
World’s largest free-floating ice berg that’s the size of Delaware is breaking apart – and could stop seals and penguins getting food Iceberg A68a calved from Antarctica in 2017 and has been free-floating since New satellite images on Monday showed cracks along its surface On Tuesday, imagery reveals the cracks broke through and formed more … Read more
World’s largest free-floating iceberg loses a 70 square miles chunk from its northernmost section after slamming into the continental shelf surrounding South Georgia island Iceberg A68a is on a collision path with South Georgia island NASA satellites captured an image showing it lost a large chunk along the way The pieces is measures about 70 … Read more
Investors in FTSE 100 companies had a tough year as more than half of those firms cut, deferred or cancelled over £37billion of dividend payments in response to the Covid crisis, new research shows. But while dividend cuts have been the story of 2020, the outlook for 2021 is more positive, according to analysts – especially … Read more
The first large-scale offshore wind farm is coming to the US and it could be the most powerful in the world. Vineyard Wind recently announced it will be placing more than 60 of General Electric’s 856-foot Haliade-X turbines some 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, a popular island destination in Massachusetts. When activated … Read more
The mother of Britain’s biggest family has revealed the huge number of Christmas presents she has for her children this year as she described herself as a ‘demon wrapper’. Sue, 44, and husband Noel Radford, 48, from Lancashire, who welcomed their first child thirty years ago, and gave birth to their 22nd child – daughter … Read more
World’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii releases its first image of 10,000-mile wide sunspot that could fit the entire Earth inside The Inouye Solar Telescope captured its first image of a sunspot The image achieved a spatial resolution about 2.5 times higher than others The sunspot measures 10,000 miles across and its center is is 7,500F … Read more
Deaths due to dementia and Alzheimer’s have fallen by the largest amount in 20 years, official figures have revealed. An Office for National Statistics report into the fatalities, published for the first time, shows they dropped by four per cent in 2019 in England and Wales – or 3,054 – from 69,478 to 66,424. The … Read more