Climate change could trigger an ancient El Niño-like pattern in the Indian Ocean that would create extreme weather such as floods, storms and droughts across the globe. El Niño is the name of a current recurring climate phenomenon across the tropical Pacific, which shifts back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, and triggers disruptions of … Read more
There is a war going on in nature – murderous Asian hornets are invading honeybee hives, and are decapitating the insects and feeding the bodies to their young. However, Japanese honeybees have developed a bizarre counter attack that cooks the predators to death. More than 500 workers bees swarm around the hornets, trapping them in … Read more
The US Air Force and Space Force have kept a tight lid on their mysterious space plane, but a military official has shared the craft’s agenda with the public for the first time ahead of its orbital flight this month. The X-37B is set to take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, … Read more
‘Marsquakes’ measured by NASA‘s InSight rover and an experiment to recreate the conditions thought to exist in the Martian core could reveal how the planet formed. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have been studying the seismic properties of iron-sulphur – thought to be the substance at the core of Mars. It’s not known exactly … Read more
SpaceX have created a Crew Dragon simulator that lets you play at being an astronaut and practise manually docking with the International Space Station. The free-to-play browser based tool presents users with a digital copy of the real-life controls astronauts would use if they needed to manually dock with the ISS. The real Crew Dragon … Read more
Zoom buys online security service in bid to address safety concerns and introduce end-to-end encryption The platform has acquired Keybase in a bid to bolster security Zoom’s acquisition will help it introduce end-to-end encryption Stronger encryption will require some Zoom features to be altered The acquisition is a part of Zoom’s 90-day commitment to strengthen security By … Read more
Microsoft unveils Xbox Series X gameplay and announces ‘optimized’ badge that lets customers know when games are designed to run best on the upcoming console Microsoft unveiled Xbox Series X gameplay for several major titles Among the premiers were Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Dirt 5 The company also announced a new ‘badge’ signaling when games are … Read more
Exotic animals known as ‘pangolins’ that were blamed for first transmitting coronavirus from bats to humans could be IMMUNE to the deadly disease, study claims Pangolins lack virus-sensing genes that normally trigger an immune response This means that they can carry the virus without necessarily suffering from it However, researchers are not sure how, then, the … Read more
Ash dieback disease plaguing forests could be stopped by hedgerows and may NOT be as harmful as previously thought, study finds Study assessed levels of the fungal disease in a 22 square km patch of woodland Found that within two years the disease was found on almost all trees in the area However, trees in … Read more
‘Smell cameras’ built by Airbus to detect explosives on planes ‘could be adapted to sniff out coronavirus’ So-called smell cameras have been designed to spot explosives on planes The technology has now begun adaptation to identify the coronavirus Similar technology has already been used to detect cancer and influenza According to the people behind the … Read more