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Your unemployment questions, answered

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:16:13 -0400

U.S. jobless claims have exceeded 30 million since the coronavirus outbreak hit the country, wiping out a decade of job gains and sending many Americans scrambling to find work and cash in on...

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Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:17:50 +0000

If you read a book painting the very worst-case scenarios about what global warming means for human life you could easily panic. Here’s why you shouldn’t

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Scientists chasing waterfalls discovered something they aren't used to

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:00:46 +0000

We often think waterfalls indicate ancient tectonic or glacial activity – but it turns out they can form all by themselves without these external influences

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We've discovered a massive dinosaur-era river delta under the sea

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:00:45 +0000

Some of the first dinosaurs may have lived and hunted on the largest delta plain ever discovered, which was 10 times the size of the Amazon river delta

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Want to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:00:00 +0000

In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation

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Lush island landscape in Polish lake captured from above

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000

To find subjects to photograph, Kacper Kowalski takes to the air in a paramotor or gyrocopter, barely steering to allow the wind to dictate the direction

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Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:00:38 +0000

The Permian extinction, which wiped out almost all complex life, may have been caused by the undersides of continents slipping off into Earth’s interior

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Incredible close-up images of the natural world recognised with awards

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Ethereal photos of life’s building blocks, Earth’s toughest creature and a close-up of a gem win Olympus Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award regional prizes

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Drilling Antarctica to predict the future

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:06:25 +0000

It took 20 years of planning and lots of hot water to drill 2 kilometres into Antarctica. Andy Smith describes a ground- breaking achievement

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We have only just figured out how human feet work

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:00:33 +0000

Just how humans evolved the stiff feet that allow us to walk and run has been something of a mystery, but now researchers say a bony arch structure is the key

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Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000

This week, listen as Reply All goes down the internet rabbit hole, watch the second series of Netflix's Altered Carbon, and ponder what fossils our culture will leave for the far future

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Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

This week, listen as David Attenborough reads nature classic The Peregrine, learn how skyscrapers and railway cuttings offer unlikely oases for wildlife, and watch an Altered Carbon anime spin-off

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:01:17 +0000

People living in Russia about 20,000 years ago built a "bonehenge" – a circular structure made of mammoth bones that could have been used to store food

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The science of boredom can tell us how to keep ourselves amused

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Boredom can be unpleasant, but we can learn from some of the world's dullest people how to keep ourselves amused, says boredom researcher James Danckert

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Ancient nomadic warrior women may have inspired the Mulan legend

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:54:20 +0000

Skeletal markings show that some women who lived on the Mongolian steppe 1850 years ago appear to have been warriors, perhaps providing inspiration for the famous Ballad of Mulan

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Altered Carbon 2 review: A great premise that's become too serious

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

In Altered Carbon’s version of the future, our identities are stored in chips and can be switched between bodies. The first series was a hoot. The second, however, is a bit too earnest, says Emily Wilson

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Homemade cultured butter is more buttery than normal butter

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 10:00:16 +0000

Making butter at home the traditional way is easy and the result is far more flavourful than the shop-bought version, says Sam Wong

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Missing for a century, giant Galapagos tortoise is discovered again

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:03:41 -0500

Forrest Galante, a host of 'Extinct or Alive' on the 'Animal Planet,' recounts the locating of the Fernandina Island tortoise that hasn't been heard from since 1906. (Dan Fastenberg reports.)

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The 2025 User Experience: Predictions for the Future of Personalized Technology

By news.harman.com
Published On :: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:30:00 GMT

History is witness to the many scientific leaders and technology visionaries who all tried to predict what innovations will exist in the future. While not all predictions come to fruition, others were not so far off. We may not have flying cars like The...

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HARMAN introduces RCP, expands its Remote Patient Monitoring and Elderly Care offering powered by Intel

By news.harman.com
Published On :: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:43:00 GMT

STAMFORD, CT – January 16, 2020 – HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., focused on connected technologies and solutions for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, today announced HARMAN RCP, a remote patient...

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People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Lose your bearings in an unfamiliar landscape and fear shreds your navigational brain. But studies are now revealing the common mistakes lost people make, helping rescue teams to find them before it’s too late

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How red is a black hole? The strange reality of what space looks like

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Our images of deep space are spectacular, but don’t reflect what our eyes would see. Here's what their stunning true colours reveal about the cosmos

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Optimism can avert climate disaster, say duo who brokered Paris deal

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac led the 2015 Paris climate negotiations. They tell us why they’re hopeful for the future, and explain how fighting climate change is “the most exciting experiment in history”

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Little green invaders: how parakeets conquered the world

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Move over Martians, Earth has already been invaded by little green aliens, but how did parakeets become one of the most successful invasive species ever?

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Infrared-reflecting paint can cool buildings even when it is black

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:00:01 +0000

Black paint usually absorbs heat, but a new two-layer polymer paint reflects infrared light and keeps objects 16°C cooler, which could help make buildings more energy efficient

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It’s impossible to predict if crucial Antarctic glacier will collapse

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:20:03 +0000

The Pine Island glacier has three tipping points that could lead to the collapse of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, potentially raising sea levels by 3 metres over centuries

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Robots with 3D-printed muscles are powered by the spines of rats

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:00:54 +0000

Robots made of 3D-printed muscle and rat spines could help us understand conditions like motor neurone disease and the technique may eventually be used to build prosthetic devices

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UK government won't say how many covid-19 contact tracers it has hired

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:51:42 +0000

The UK government has refused to say how many covid-19 contact tracers it has employed, with less than three weeks to go until its target of recruiting 18,000 of them by mid-May

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Red light could be used to precisely target rheumatoid arthritis drugs

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 14:57:21 +0000

People with rheumatoid arthritis often take medicines that can have damaging side-effects, but a system that uses red light to deliver drugs exactly where they are needed could help

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Homemade cultured butter is more buttery than normal butter

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 10:00:16 +0000

Making butter at home the traditional way is easy and the result is far more flavourful than the shop-bought version, says Sam Wong

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Bank of England predicts worst slump in 300 years

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 06:12:20 -0400

The Bank of England says the UK faces its worst slump in 300 years, but on Thursday held off from any moves on rates or bond buying. Julian Satterthwaite reports.

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