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Different Types of Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions and Their Applications

Scamming in the form of counterfeiting has become a global pandemic. Business trademarks are being stolen, and fake products have spread everywhere. Consumers f... read more

Tether and its Presence in Sports

Tether (USDT) is a cryptocurrency (stablecoin) based on the Bitcoin blockchain, built to complement the Omni Layer Bitcoin platform. It is the digital equivalen... read more

Jeff Bezos predicts people will be born in space and visit Earth on vacation

In the future, space will be humanity’s home and people will visit Earth on vacation, according to billionaire Jeff Bezos. The Blue Origin founder said on... read more

Thousand-year-old fish bones show native Canadians fished sustainably by releasing female salmon

A Canadian tribe understood and practiced sustainable fishing for a thousand years before European settlers demolished their carefully balanced system with thei... read more

Rare ‘earthgrazer’ meteor flew 186 miles across Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee before vanishing

Rare ‘earthgrazer’ meteor flew 186 miles across Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee before vanishing, NASA says An ‘earthgrazer’ meteor flew ... read more

Climate change is altering the bodies of Amazonian birds, study says

Climate change is shape-shifting the bodies of birds in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, a concerning new study shows. Researchers have found ... read more

Engineer builds iPhone that uses USB-C charging and sells it for $86,000 on eBay

Apple may soon be forced to create an iPhone with a USB-C port to reduce waste, but one enterprising engineer has taken it upon himself to already build the sma... read more

Exosuit uses ultrasound to ‘profile’ wearers’ muscles to help walk in changing terrain

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a robotic exosuit that swiftly calibrate to an individual wearer in a matter of seconds.   The system uses ul... read more

Geophysics: Intense pressurised conditions of Earth’s outer core recreated in a LAB

At the extreme pressures found at the bottom of the Earth’s outer core, iron assumes a stronger form to cope with the stress in a process called ‘tw... read more

Bizarre ‘eggshell exoplanets’ with a thin outer layer may exist, study finds 

‘Eggshell planets’ with an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography may orbit around other stars in the universe, a new study reve... read more

Astronomers find object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that is blocking cosmic rays

Astronomers discover object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that is blocking cosmic rays – and they say they aren’t sure what it is just yet A... read more

TikTok is BACK! Hour-long outage left thousands of US users without access

TikTok is back online! Hour-long outage left thousands of US users without access to the social media platform TikTok has stopped working for over 10,000 users ... read more

Space: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures a stunning photo of ‘mocha swirls’ on Jupiter

A stunning photograph of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft has revealed ‘mocha swirls’ of clouds in the gas giant’s mid-souther... read more

Rare ‘Henry VII half groat’ is likely the oldest English coin found in Canada

A rare ‘half groat’ or two-penny piece minted during the reign of Henry VII is likely the oldest English coin found in Canada, experts reveal. The ... read more

Geology: Elusive crystal predicted decades ago is discovered inside a DIAMOND from the lower mantle

Elusive crystal predicted decades ago is discovered trapped inside a DIAMOND from more than 410 miles below the surface of Earth The high-pressure form of calc... read more

Look up next week! Leonids Meteor Shower will peak on Wednesday

The Leonids Meteor Shower is set to peak on Wednesday night and through to Thursday dawn, with up to 15 shooting stars every hour, experts say.  The annual sp... read more

£6,830 version of iPhone 13 Pro Max contains a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old T.REX TOOTH 

That’s roar-some! Designers create a £6,830 version of Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max containing a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old T.REX TOOTH Ap... read more

Gmail is DOWN: Google’s email service crashes for frustrated users around the world 

Human error People often assume any kind of web disruption is linked to hacking, but actually more mundane reasons such as human error tend to be the more likel... read more

Is Apple building a DRONE? New patents filed by tech giant describe small unmanned aerial vehicles

Apple is rumored to be developing several technologies outside of smartphones and tablets, such as a VR headset and a car, but new patents awarded to the tech g... read more

Israel is showing off a new electronic warfare system that uses beams instead of missiles or bullets

Israeli’s state-run defense contractor, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), announced a new family of electronic warfare systems on Thursday, capable of de... read more

Fossilized cranium of 4.5 million-year-old elephant shows how it become the dominate speices

Researchers have re-analyzed the enormous cranium of an ancient relative of the African elephant and found that it used significantly less energy than other anc... read more

History: Volcanoes helped trigger the fall of some of China’s most powerful dynasties, study claims

The collapse of some of Imperial China’s most powerful dynasties over the last 2,000 years may have been triggered in part by volcanic eruptions, a study ... read more

Instagram tests new ‘Take a Break’ feature

Time to take a break? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users reminders when they’ve spent too long on the app Take a Break allows users to  opt-... read more

Rare ‘1 in 100 million’ cotton candy-colored lobster is caught in Maine’s Casco Bay 

Catch of a lifetime! Rare ‘1 in 100 million’ cotton candy-colored lobster is caught in Maine’s Casco Bay A fisherman off the coast of Maine re... read more