June 11: World’s largest single-aperture optical telescope, the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), which is on the island of La Palma in Spain, has captured an image of deepest Earth-based galaxy. The galaxy is ten times deeper than any other obtained from the ground and 500 million light years away from the Earth. GTC researchers managed […]
June 04: Analyzing nine years’ worth of data collected by NASA’s satellite Aura, U.S. and Canadian scientists have discovered 39 unreported major sources of sulfur dioxide. Clusters of coal-burning power plants, smelters, and other oil and gas installations were located mostly in Middle Eastern countries but also in Mexico and Russia. The scientists also said […]
June 04: Facebook is starting to think about a time when Mark Zuckerberg will no longer be its CEO. The company is asking shareholders to vote on a proposal that allows Zuckerberg’s majority voting control to be terminated if he steps down or no longer occupies a leadership position at Facebook. “These new terms thus […]
June 03: Britain has been ranked fourth in a global league measuring how much countries contribute to the “common good of humanity”. The Good Country Index placed the UK above France and Germany because Britain does more “good” and less harm than more than 150 countries around the world. Using 35 separate indicators – sourced […]
June 03: Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new test for the Zika virus that could greatly improve how quickly people can find out if they’re infected. The CBC’s David Common checked out the lab where the test was made. The researchers told him that their method uses a simple material — paper — […]
May 28: A patent-licensing firm is seeking to force Apple to suspend its Facetime and iMessage services claiming it has suffered “irreparable harm” as a result of the tech giant’s actions. VirnetX was awarded $625m (£426m) in February after a jury found Apple had wilfully infringed four of its patents. The Texas-based firm is now […]
May 27: One of the hottest tech stocks of the past year and a half is helping to make driverless cars a reality. Nvidia (NVDA, Tech30), a company most well known for graphics processing chips used for video games, has also developed the Drive PX autonomous car computer and Drive CX digital cockpit. Nvidia’s technology […]
May 27: Scientists for the first time have directly detected key organic compounds in a comet, bolstering the notion that these celestial objects delivered such chemical building blocks for life long ago to Earth and throughout the solar system. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft made several detections of the amino acid glycine, used by […]
May 26: Scientists investigated whether the differences in physique between Neanderthals and modern humans are genetic or caused by differences in lifestyle, finding that Neanderthals’ wide bodies and robust bones were formed by birth. If a Neanderthal were to sit down next to us on the underground, we would probably first notice his receding forehead, […]
May 14: A new parody app about Donald Trump is a hit, climbing to No. 5 on the list of most downloaded apps in the U.S. iTunes App Store. The objective of the game is to build a wall (as “huuuge” as you can). You’re not building the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, however. The […]
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