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Robot gives needle-free ‘shots’ with high-pressure jet of fluid into opening the width of a hair 

A Canadian startup has made the process of getting a COVID-19 vaccine much easier with a robot that injects a shot directly into the muscle without the use of a... read more

Twitter unveils new search button that makes it easier to search a single user’s past tweets 

Twitter is rolling out a new search button on some accounts that allows users to more easily scan through a specific person’s past tweets. The button, loc... read more

Leaves of small Samoan TREE could be as effective at treating fever and pain as ibuprofen

Leaves of small Samoan TREE could be as effective at treating fever and pain as ibuprofen, scientists say Psychotria insularum is an indigenous Samoan tree tha... read more

Scientists present the dark side of Pluto in new images

NASA has revealed a grainy photo of Pluto’s dark side, six years after it was taken by its New Horizons spacecraft.  The image – taken in July 2015 wh... read more

Perseverance rover shares images of Martian rocks suspected of forming when water was present

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the Red Planet for more than 250 days and it has now found layered rocks on Mars. The rover, which left Earth on Feb... read more

How Sitting Bull’s spirit helped prove a South Dakota man is his direct descendant

A geneticist who wished to prove a man was a famed Native American tribal leader’s great-grandson was asked to attend a séance to seek permission from th... read more

US military is asking two defense contractors to design a 300kW high energy laser

The U.S. military has commissioned the building of a 300 kilowatt solid state laser to destroy drones and missiles amid rising concern over China’s new hy... read more

Meet ‘Cold Bone’: New dinosaur species found in Greenland

A newly-discovered species of dinosaur that reached 13 feet long, five foot tall and weighed up to a tonne was an ancestor of diplodocus, scientists have reveal... read more

Scientists simulate a climate model of Dune planet Arrakis

It is possible for the desert-world of Arrakis, featured in the Dune movie and novels, to be habitable to humans, according to a climate study of the fictional ... read more

Food: Traditionally-grown Mediterranean fare can TRIPLE pesticide intake compared to Western diet

The not-so-healthy Mediterranean diet? Switching from ‘Western’ foods to non-organically-grown fruit, veg and whole grains can TRIPLE the pesticides... read more

Earth’s crust was ‘hot and thin’ through the ‘Boring Billion’, study finds

It seems the ‘Boring Billion’ – a period in Earth’s history between 1,850 million and 850 million years ago – wasn’t so boring after... read more

Violent video games don’t make people more aggressive in real life, study says

Shooter video games like Call of Duty are often citied as the motivation for real-life gun crimes.  But according to a new scientific study published today, th... read more

COVID-19: Alpha variant detected in four cats and two dogs for the first time

UK’S ‘KENT’ VARIANT – B.1.1.7  UK health officials announced in December that a ‘variant of concern’ had emerged in  the c... read more

Psychology: Those more worried about their appearance are more likely to suffer from dating ANXIETY

Psychologists suggest there are five stages of love – butterflies, building, assimilation, honesty and stability. Each of these stages has a different imp... read more

Ancient shipwreck dating back 2,500 years is discovered beneath Aegean Sea

Ancient shipwreck dating back 2,500 years is discovered beneath Aegean Sea: Vessel was crammed with hundreds of pieces pottery and indicates there was developed... read more

NASA announces plans to land lunar ice mining drill near the moon’s south pole

NASA announced on Wednesday that it will send an ice-mining experiment to the moon’s south pole, set to head into orbit late next year. The mission will h... read more

Scientists predict the lake near the Fukushima nuclear accident will be radioactive for 30 years

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up when all is said and done, but the environmental cost could be signifi... read more

Flying race cars compete in a DRAG RACE in the skies over Adelaide

A pair of flying race cars have been pitted against one another in the skies over Australia, as part of a test ahead of a new manned race series starting in 202... read more

NASA reveals there are more than 300 ways its James Webb Space Telescope could FAIL

It is the biggest and most expensive space telescope NASA has ever built and will peer deeper into the cosmos than its iconic predecessor Hubble. But the $10 bi... read more

Internet outages: Experts reveal why Facebook and Instagram keep crashing

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram crashed for the second time in a month last night, while a string of banks, phone networks and fellow tech giants... read more

Fluorine is detected in a galaxy 12 BILLION light years away

Fluorine, an element found in our teeth and bones in the form of fluoride, has been detected in a galaxy 12 billion light years away from the Earth. This is the... read more

Fossils: Giant SHARK, possibly megalodon, sunk its teeth into a baleen whale 15 million years ago

A baleen whale was lunch for a giant shark — possibly a megalodon — some 12–15 million years ago, bite marks on a fossilised flipper bone have revealed. P... read more

Dogs get worse separation anxiety when with another pooch, study finds

With many of us finally back in the office following months of Covid-19 lockdown, you may be worried that your dog is lonely at home on their own.  While you m... read more

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit it filed against NASA for awarding lunar contract to SpaceX 

A federal judge has ruled against Blue Origin in its lawsuit against NASA over a $2.9 billion contract that the space agency awarded to SpaceX. Federal judge Ri... read more