Apple has released a redesigned Maps for UK users. featuring city guides, cycling directions and its Google Street view-style ‘Look Around’ feature. The US tech giant has worked with Ordinance Survey to brings a greater level of detail to British and Irish landmass and buildings for the new Maps interface. Apple Maps ‘2.0’, which rolled out … Read more
Nintendo announces Minecraft character Steve will make his way to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch game console Nintendo announced a new fighter on Smash Bros. Ultimate on Thursday Steve from the popular game Minecraft will be joining the other characters Users can swap Steve out in the game for Alex, Zombie and Enderman Nintendo … Read more
NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the explosive final moments of a star as it goes supernova in a galaxy 70 million light years from the Earth. Astronomers from Johns Hopkins University used images from the space telescope to track the fading light of the supernova to the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. The supernova, formally … Read more
A stone head carved around 700 years ago that is thought to depict King Edward II has been unearthed during a dig at the former site of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset. Archaeologists said that ‘stunning’ find may once have formed part of a previously unknown gallery of sculpture of Kings and Queens within the grand building. The statues, … Read more
One of the earliest human ancestors – that lived 400 million years ago – was a ‘fish’ with no jaw that used spines on its head to shift position in the water, study claims. Researchers from the University of Bristol used computer simulations to create ‘avatars’ of our ancient relatives to explore how they moved … Read more
Blue whales – the largest animal on Earth – sing at different times of the day depending on the season, a new study says. US experts recorded both individual whales and their greater populations in the Northeast Pacific, using tagging and underwater microphones called ‘hydrophones’. During feeding season in the summer when feasting on krill, blue whales … Read more
Twitter is DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are unable to access the website or app version of the social media platform Twitter is down across the world, leaving thousands unable to use the site The outage appeared around 9:30am ET and has hit more than 40,000 people The US, the UK and Japan … Read more
Some very clever cats are able to recognise and imitate human actions on command — even better than some dogs — a study has reported. Hungarian researchers worked with an 11-year-old kitty named Ebisu, who had been taught by her dog-trainer owner to copy her using the so-called ‘do-as-I-do’ method. This is a training regime long-applied … Read more
A tennis court-sized nuclear fusion reactor being developed in the US could be producing electricity within a decade, backers claim. The SPARC nuclear fusion reactor, a joint project involving Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is expected to begin construction on June 21 next year and take three or four years until completion. It is hoped that SPARC … Read more
‘Vaccine against trauma death’: Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims’ lives Tranexamic acid is a drug currently used to stop bleeding in trauma patients At present it is administered via an intravenous line — which is fiddly to set up British and French experts … Read more