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House clearance reveals incredible piece of computing history

Tech February 19, 2024

Feb 9: If you wear contact lenses, we have huge news for you SWNS

If you wear contact lenses, we have huge news for you

Tech February 9, 2024

Extreme close-up of fresh blueberries covered with water drops

At last – we finally know why blueberries are blue

Tech February 7, 2024

Great White Shark

Holiday hotspots where fatal shark attacks have doubled in a year

Tech February 6, 2024

Many different breeds of dogs on the grass

Chart reveals how long your dog's got to live

Tech February 2, 2024

Bigfoot in the forest

Scientists discover the reason why there aren't more Bigfoots

Tech January 11, 2024

Amazed cute toddler girl with pigtails eating at a table at home.

Parental warning: This common childhood habit is contagious

Tech January 11, 2024

Solar flare

Weather from outer space 'could make trains crash into each other'

Tech December 11, 2023

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 GMT, WED NOV 29 (19.01 ET, TUES 28)* 1872 Letter from Morton Allport to craniologist Joseph Barnard Davis. Highlighted text reads, ?I can assure you that I took no small trouble to see that the bones were disinterred from only from a sp[ot?] where none but Aborigines were buried?]?. Release date ? November 27, 2023. See SWNS story SWSCremains. A respected Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains robbed from their graves for scientific accolades, reveals new research. Morton Allport, a solicitor based in Hobart, Tasmania, built his reputation as ?the foremost scientist in the colony? in the mid-1800?s, despite limited contributions to scientific knowledge. But a new investigation has discovered that he achieved his lofty status by obtaining the bodily remains of Tasmanian Aboriginal people and Tasmanian tigers, and sending them to collectors in Europe ? specifically asking for scientific accolades in return. Researchers say that Allport's behaviour took place in the context of a "genocide" against the Tasmanian Aborigines, and persecution of Tasmanian tigers, also known as thylacines, that eventually led to their extinction. The study by Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of Cambridge University's Museum of Zoology, is based on transcriptions of letters sent by Allport to correspondents in Australia and Europe. His research, published in the journal Archives of Natural History, reveals how the human and environmental costs of the colonial project were entwined with practices of natural history. *** Local Caption *** Allport Library and Museum, State Library of Tasmania: Letterbooks of Morton Allport (excerpt from letter to Davis 10/7/1872), ALL19/1/4

Letters reveal grim truth about 'respectable' Victorian lawyer

Tech November 29, 2023

Bizarre giant 'candy floss' planet is covered in clouds of sand

Tech November 15, 2023

Scientists find ‘huge surprise’ on 20,000ft volcano

Tech October 23, 2023

A brother and a sister posing together with balloons

Scientists think they have found one of the causes of autism

Tech October 13, 2023

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 16.00 BST, THURSOCT 12 (11.00 ET)* Rendering of paved road and landing pad, on the lunar surface. .Photo released October 12 2023. See SWNS story SWSCmoon,Paved roads and landing pads could be built on the moon using giant lasers to melt lunar soil into a more solid substance, according to a new study.German researchers say that although their experiments were carried out on Earth using a substitute for lunar dust, the findings show the "viability" of the technique.And they believe it could be replicated on the Moon. Study co-author Professor Miranda Fateri, of Aalen University, said: "Moon dust poses a significant challenge to lunar rovers as, due to the low levels of gravity, it tends to float around when disturbed and can damage equipment.

Scientists want to use massive lasers to melt roads into the Moon

Tech October 12, 2023

A massive solar storm blasted Earth. The next one could be catastrophic

Tech October 9, 2023

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 19.00 BST, THURS OCT 5 (14.00 ET)* Fossilized footprints in White Sands National Park. Photo released October 5 2023. See SWNS story SWSCfootprints. The oldest fossilised human footprints found in North America are more than 20,000 years old, according to new research. Two new lines of evidence support the 21,000 to 23,000-year-old estimate of the prints made two years ago - confirming humans were present in North America when the geographic extent of ice sheet and glacier coverage on Earth's surface peaked, known as the Last Glacial Maximum. The original 2021 results kicked off a global conversation among the science community as to the accuracy of the ages.

20,000-year-old discovery upends our understanding of American history

Tech October 9, 2023

Random scraps of wood prove our ancestors were way smarter than we thought

Tech May 14, 2024

Low angle view of squirrel on tree,Dhigurah,Maldives

Bats desperate for some good PR could hold key to saving millions of lives

Tech September 20, 2023

Panda in Repose

Pandas suffering 'jet lag' from life in zoos

Tech September 18, 2023

Council tower blocks in Birmingham City Centre at sunset

Where you live changes how your brain works, scientists discover

Tech September 15, 2023

Meet the 'bloodthirsty' beast that ruled 40 million years before the dinosaurs

Tech September 14, 2023