1. Hand Sanitiser vs Soap Hand sanitiser has been in high demand globally during 2020, but the 70% alcohol gel which kills bacteria and viruses (including COVID-19) often comes in a plastic bottle. To reduce plastic consumption, consider switching to a bar of soap and warm water for washing your hands. Bars of soap can … Read more
Facebook takes on Cameo with a new video platform that lets users pay for face time with celebrities to ask them questions and take selfies during live segments Facebook is working on a video platform that connects fans with celebrities Called Super, users can pay to appear with celebrities during live shows Viewers can buy … Read more
As some 60 million Americans on the east coast prepare for the worst nor’easter in a decade, nearly 84 million across the US are experiencing some level of drought. The west and southwest areas were hit with a drought this past spring that continued and intensified through the summer, fall and now into the winter … Read more
A UK observatory has shared what’s believed to be the longest-exposure image ever taken, lasting longer than eight years. But the image, shot at the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory, wasn’t made with any high-tech photo equipment. Regina Valkenborgh, a graduate art student at the college at the time, just used a simple pinhole camera … Read more
Chinese Chang’e-5 probe touched down in the Siziwang district at 1:30 local time Thursday, bringing the first lunar soil samples to Earth in more than 45 years. Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of the lunar probe that launched for the Moon on November 23 and landed on the surface on December 1. … Read more
If left to run for some 14 billion years — roughly the current age of the universe — a new type of atomic clock could keep accurate time to within a tenth of a second. The design by US experts makes use of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglements, in which particles become inextricably linked. … Read more
A hoard of more than 100 elephant tusks aboard a sunken ship that was lost for nearly 500 years has been traced to West Africa in a new study. Scientists used DNA analysis to compare the well-preserved tusks – which were recovered from a 16th century Portuguese shipping vessel called the Bom Jesus that was … Read more
Ancient Egyptians traveled great distances to the magical Land of Punt to obtain extravagant goods like incense and living baboons, but the true location of this wondrous place has been a mystery to scientists for more than a century -until now. A team from Dartmouth College has set out to find what ancient Egyptian’s called … Read more
One smile fits all: People around the world pull the same faces when watching fireworks, seeing their sports team win or attending a wedding, AI-powered study finds Researchers trained an AI to analyse expressions in 6 million YouTube videos These included footage people around the world seen in various social settings The AI found humans … Read more
The company’s journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left 1976: Founders Steve Jobs, … Read more