Image source, Getty Images Article information Author, Tom Singleton Role, Technology reporter 49 minutes ago Three decades after its launch, it’s hard to grasp the scale of Amazon. Consider its vast warehouse in Dartford, on the outskirts of London. It holds millions of items in stock, with hundreds of thousands bought every day – and … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Article information Author, Tom Singleton Role, Technology reporter 8 hours ago Three decades after its launch, it’s hard to grasp the scale of Amazon. Consider its vast warehouse in Dartford, on the outskirts of London. It holds millions of items in stock, with hundreds of thousands bought every day – and … Read more
The most complete dinosaur fossil ever discovered in Mississippi has been called “incredibly unusual” by state officials. It remains 85 percent buried since its discovery in 2007. Paleontologists have confirmed that the specimen was once a living hadrosaur: a family of vegetarian, duck-billed dinosaurs that lived more than 82 million years ago. But the hadrosaur … Read more
Today, few deny the impact of global warming. Now that the term has become slang for everything that is wrong with the planet, experts have been conducting empirical studies of its impact on the Antarctic ice sheets. What used to be called “forever” is now melting rapidly, at a rate that was previously unimaginable. This … Read more
More than 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from the Earth’s mantle caused the crust in Mongolia to split apart, creating an ocean that lasted for 115 million years. The geologic history of this ocean could help researchers understand Wilson cycles, or the process by which supercontinents break apart and reassemble. These … Read more
According to Director General Pietro Barabaschi, the commissioning of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France has been delayed by 15 years. The first test of the ITER fusion reactor is now expected to reach full magnetic energy in 2036 – a three-year delay from the 2016 baseline – while the start of the … Read more
There are many ways our civilization can come to an abrupt end, but only a handful of them involve forces so powerful and beyond our control that they are impossible to stop. An asteroid impact is one of those world-ending events that we have absolutely no defense against, and the more we try to avoid … Read more
A bone from the Baishiya Karst cave in Tibet suggests that Denisovans lived there about 40,000 years ago, long after modern humans had spread across much of Asia. Combined with earlier evidence of their presence in the area 190,000 years ago, the find reveals an extraordinary persistence in the face of exceptionally difficult circumstances. It … Read more
IIn 2002, a group of five Italians made local news: they were going to be the first company in the country to develop a game for Nintendo’s popular handheld device, the Game Boy Advance. The group pooled a few hundred euros and some computers to prepare the project. They had no experience in making games. … Read more
All products and promotions are independently selected by our experts. To help us provide free unbiased advice, we earn an affiliate commission if you make a purchase. Click here to find out more Freesat has pulled the plug on a clever Sky Q-like feature that allowed viewers to schedule recordings from everywhere in the world. … Read more