Microsoft is BANNING players of the racing game Forza who decorate their cars with the confederate flag online Microsoft is banning the use of the confederate flag in the racing game, Forza It also banned Nazi symbols and imperialist Japan’s rising sun flag Players who use the flag must be reported before being banned By James … Read more
Weird exoplanet 40 times larger than Earth orbiting a star 730 light-years away may be the exposed core of a Jupiter-like gas giant, scientists claim Exoplanet named TOI 849 b orbits its star every 18 hours – a very fast year It is thought the gases surrounding the core were stripped away by the proximity … Read more
Being told someone looks ‘grumpy’ makes them seem even grumpier: Language is just as important as expressions when reading someone’s emotions, study shows Experts from Australia and the US asked volunteers to rank people’s emotions When emotions were labelled this altered how expressions were interpreted The effect was most pronounced with angry, sad or scared … Read more
Aboriginal stone tools dating back 8,500 years discovered off the coast of Western Australia mark out the sites of two ancient settlements submerged underwater since the last ice age Divers found two underwater Aboriginal sites off the coast of Western Australia Were once above sea level but later submerged after the end of the last … Read more
Australian government will deploy 80 drones to the country’s public beaches to monitor for sharks and protect swimmers from attack The Australian government will send 80 drones to 34 high-risk public beaches The drones will be able to identify sharks in the waters to protect swimmers They’ll also be able to identify the species of … Read more
Shocking footage of a wet market in Vietnam has revealed frogs having their legs cut off with scissors, turtles struggling to escape from cages, and fish being hit with knives as the coronavirus pandemic ravages the globe. Chickens and ducks were also seen sitting on top of each other in cramped cages that were placed … Read more
Residents in Northampton, Massachusetts are mobilizing to try and prevent the city from turning the site of 10,000-year-old village into a $3.8 million traffic roundabout. More than 500 artifacts have excavated from the site and Northampton resident Greg Skibiski is leading an effort to prevent the city from building over the site, which is currently … Read more
Beavers are massively changing landscapes in the Arctic by building dams, which melt permanently frozen ground and release greenhouse gases, a new study says. Over the last few years, beavers have expanded into many tundra regions where they had never been seen before, due to an abundance of vegetation. But they are also building more … Read more
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has been delayed again and won’t launch until July 30 ‘at the earliest’ due to problems with the launch vehicle, according to the space agency. This is the second time the launch has been delayed in the past week – it was originally due to set off on July 17 but … Read more
Miniature lenses made with spider silk could allow scientists to take extremely high-resolution images inside the human body Specialist silk from a daddy long legs spider was used as part of experiments Resin applied to the silk forms a droplet which is hardened using ultraviolet light This droplet is around two micrometres wide and can … Read more