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UK’s largest carbon capture project will turn 40,000 tonnes of CO2 into sodium bicarbonate each year

The UK’s largest carbon capture project will turn 40,000 tonnes of waste carbon dioxide into the useful chemical sodium bicarbonate. This is the equivalen... read more

Octopus-like craft will live in Earth’s orbit and grab dead satellites as they float past

The UK government yesterday announced a raft of new measures designed to drive sustainability in space and help clear up the millions of shards of debris clogg... read more

Hubble discovers dead star engaged in ‘cosmic cannibalism’

Hubble discovers dead star engaged in ‘cosmic cannibalism’ Researchers used data from Hubble and other observatories to analyze materials captured b... read more

Incredible footage shows 12,000-mile plasma TORNADO erupting from the surface of the sun

Solar twister! Incredible footage shows 12,000-mile plasma TORNADO erupting from the surface of the sun A 12,000-mile-tall solar twister has been spotted by an ... read more

Google warns of new SPYWARE used to hack smartphones 

Google has warned of spyware being used by foreign governments to hack into Apple and Android phones and snoop on users’ activities.  The offending ̵... read more

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030

NASA has announced plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 as part of a vision to turn the lunar body into an orbiting power station. The US space ag... read more

Tesla plans to unveil ‘Optimus’ humanoid robot in September

Elon Musk’s car company Tesla will unveil its AI humanoid robot called ‘Optimus’ in just three months’ time. Speaking at Qatar Economic... read more

Finding The Perfect Development Platform

Finding The Perfect Development Platform With Wavemaker Wavemaker is an all-in-one software development platform that streamlines the process of creating, manag... read more

Solana – The Lightning-Fast Crypto Blockchain

Solana, which started in 2020, is a relatively new blockchain platform when compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum which started in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Over ... read more

Everything You Need to Know About Digital Comic Book NFTs

What Are NFT Comic Books? A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a one-of-a-kind digital item that cannot be duplicated, replaced, or subdivided, stored on a blockchain ... read more

Screen time of primary-age children increased by an hour and 23 minutes a day during the pandemic

Warnings of square eyes may be losing their effect, as primary school-aged children had the biggest increase in daily screen time during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... read more

High levels’ of toxic forever chemicals found in drinking water of communities near military bases

‘Dangerously high levels’ of toxic forever chemicals have been found in drinking water of communities surrounding US military bases, new report reve... read more

Dinosaur with oldest EVER ‘belly button’ seen in 125-million-year-old fossil from China

Dinosaur with oldest EVER ‘belly button’ where yolk sacs from eggs were attached is discovered in 125-million-year-old fossil from China Paleontolog... read more

Giant bacteria FIVE THOUSAND times bigger than normal are discovered in a mangrove swamp

Scientists have discovered the world’s largest known bacteria, reaching up to one centimetre (0.4-inches) in length. The species, called Thiomargarita mag... read more

Google AI researcher Blake Lemione tells Tucker Carlson LaMDA is a ‘child’ and could ‘do bad things’

Google AI researcher Blake Lemione tells Tucker Carlson LaMDA is a ‘child’ that has the potential to ‘do bad things’ and says company as a whole has not... read more

Sea lion carcass being devoured by starfish off the coast of California winner in photo competition

A haunting image showing a sea lion carcass being devoured by at least a dozen color starfish on the seafloor of Monterey Bay in California has won the ‘A... read more

Oldest known ancestor of vampire squid was an active predatory hunter – unlike its descendant 

Vampire by name, vampire by nature. Scientists have discovered that the oldest known ancestor of the vampire squid had extra-strong suckers and hair-like stra... read more

‘Stretching’ of the continents 56 million years drove global warming, study finds

Stretching of the continents 56 million years ago is likely to have caused one of the most extreme episodes of global warming in Earth’s history, new rese... read more

Study shows the brains of ‘gritty’ people work differently from people who are less perserverant

When asked to think of someone really  ‘gritty’, an image of US marshal Rooster Cogburn in the film ‘True Grit’ may spring to mind. Th... read more

Megalodon was higher up the food chain than any other marine animal, study says

It’s famous as the largest shark that ever lived, reaching up to 65 feet long.  Now, a new study shows that the megalodon was the top marine predator tha... read more

Instagram begins testing age verification tools of video selfies and confirmation from other users

Instagram has started testing new age-verification tools, including new technology that claims to be able to estimate the user’s age using a video selfie.... read more

UK announces plans to tackle SPACE JUNK with £5m investment in tech to remove debris

The UK government has announced plans to tackle space junk by slapping the reins on a ‘Wild West’ approach of clogging near-Earth orbit with hundred... read more

Twitter tests new ‘Notes’ feature that allows users to share 2,500-word blog-style posts

Twitter is testing a new feature called ‘Notes’, which lets users post blogs of up to 2,500 words – and even edit them if they want to.  Notes, w... read more

Is Novak Djokovic too OLD to win Wimbledon again? Players reach their peak at age 24

The moment that tennis fans have been waiting for is almost here, with the Wimbledon Championships set to kick off on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of tennis fa... read more