Sci-Tech news

• Wild seafood has one-sixth the CO2 emissions of beef

  27-09-2021 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from American University found that cattle farms use almost 14 times the land as fish and seafood farms to produce a gram of protein. Among farmed fish, salmon used the least land.
  
  Read more

• Rise of the dinosaurs driven by major volcanic eruptions, study finds

  27-09-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Carnian Pluvial Episode consisted of 'mega monsoons' ofintense rainfall, as well as increases in global temperature and humidity, scientists at the University of Birmingham report.
  
  Read more

• Moment fireball meteor blazes through North Carolina sky at 32,000mph is caught on doorbell camera 

  27-09-2021 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fireball that flew across the North Carolina sky last week 32,000mph, or roughly 40 times the speed of sound, was captured by a doorbell camera.
  
  Read more

• Microscopic 'swimming robots' inspired by sperm cells developed to bring drugs to parts of the body

  27-09-2021 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have designed and created miniature robots that could one day help deliver drugs to certain parts of the body, taking inspiration from bacteria and sperm cells.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• DNA Vaccines: Changing The Genetic Makeup Of Humanity

  27-09-2021 18:10 via technocracy.news
  
  Invented by scientists in India, this is “the first plasmid DNA vaccine that has been authorized for human use” and purports to inject so-called ‘naked DNA” under the skin of your arm. When inducted into the patient’s DNA, permanent changes to the germ-line will pass the genetic modifications to offspring. ⁃ TN EditorIndia last month began boasting that it has created – and its regulatory body approved – the world’s first DNA vaccine, ZyCoV-D
  
  Read more

• Instagram for kids paused after backlash

  27-09-2021 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook delays its child-friendly Instagram version to do more work with concerned parents.
  
  Read more

• Is COVID-19 A Bioweapon? A Scientific And Forensic Investigation

  27-09-2021 17:41 via technocracy.news
  
  With no ethical boundaries, Technocrat scientists will use whatever tools available to them to conquer the world. Evidence has recently surfaced that humanity is indeed under attack with a strategic bioweapon designed to cause massive injuries and deaths and resulting in fear necessary to enforce new a global Technocrat agenda. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> In his book, “Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? A Scientific and Forensic Investigation,” Dr. Richard Fleming documents evidence
  
  Read more

• All-5G iPhone 14 rumored to have 'complete redesign' that will lose notch, add MagSafe main charger 

  27-09-2021 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Front Page Tech host predict Apple will overhaul the design of the iPhone 14 for 2022, with other insiders predicting a punch-hole selfie camera replacing the notch and the end to the iPhone mini.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Blue Origin's next space tourism flight is scheduled for October 12 

  27-09-2021 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue Origin announced on Monday that its next human spaceflight will happen on October 12, unveiling two of the four astronauts who will head into space on the 15-minute flight.
  
  Read more

• Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip

  27-09-2021 17:16 via go.theregister.com
  
  'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?' Industrial mega-conglomerate Samsung is working to "copy and paste" the structure of the human brain onto computer chips.…
  
  Read more

• Spacecraft to detect asteroids would 'probably' detect football field sized space rock agency missed

  27-09-2021 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Asteroid 2021 SG, which flew past Earth undetected earlier this month, would have been detected by NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, the agency has insisted.
  
  Read more

• Great tits in Britain are now laying their eggs two weeks earlier

  27-09-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To examine the impact of climate change on birds, researchers used breeding data for more than 13,000 great tits tracked over a 60-year period in a 385-hectare woodland in Oxfordshire.
  
  Read more

• Hospitals Will Cause Their Own Demise With Mandated Vaccine Policies

  27-09-2021 16:55 via technocracy.news
  
  What do nurses see about vaccines that would cause them to lay down their careers when their employer tries to force them to be injected? Hospitals are going to cause their own demise over mandated vaccines. Other industries, already challenged by labor shortages, will suffer the same fate. Management will remain clueless as they sift through the ashes of bankruptcy. ⁃ TN EditorWith President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate set to take effect on Monday, health-care systems aroun
  
  Read more

• Fossils: Terrifying eagle with a 6-inch foot span roamed Australia 25 million years ago

  27-09-2021 16:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new species - Archaehierax sylvestris - was identified by palaeontologists from Flinders University based on a 63-bone fossil found at Lake Pinpa in South Australia.
  
  Read more

• Why you should quit your job right now

  27-09-2021 16:00
  
  Quitting your job can feel stressful, but it shouldn’t be: consider it professional self-care
  
  Read more

• Scientists create the first genetically engineered coffee

  27-09-2021 15:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The method involves taking a cell sample from a coffee plant and creating a coffee biomass, which is harvested for roasting and brewing, researchers in Espoo, Finland, report.
  
  Read more

• Study reveals how to get your kids to eat their greens

  27-09-2021 15:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A more relaxed parenting style, eating together as a family and involving a child in food preparation all reduce the likelihood of them being fussy eaters, experts at three Australian universities say.
  
  Read more

• Mr Goxx, the crypto-trading hamster beating human investors

  27-09-2021 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Can a hamster trading cryptocurrency beat human investors in the stock market? Mr Goxx can.
  
  Read more

• NASA is set to launch a $4million satellite the size of a Cheerios box into space TODAY

  27-09-2021 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Both satellites are launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 14:11 EDT (19:11 BST).
  
  Read more

• 'Einstein Ring' galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope

  27-09-2021 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New analysis of the Hubble image was carried out by a team from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, in Murcia, Spain, to understand the galaxy behind the ring.
  
  Read more

• UK forestry plan gets £15m funding boost

  27-09-2021 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three million trees have so far been planted as part of the scheme launched in 2018.
  
  Read more

• Antarctic Weddell seal populations are lower than expected, study says

  27-09-2021 11:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weddell seals only inhabited 0.55 per cent of fast ice, which is named as such because it is 'fastened' to the coastline, experts at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, report.
  
  Read more

• Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata

  27-09-2021 08:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022 Airbus and the Mexican Space Agency (MSA) have agreed to collaborate on tech to extract resources on the Moon.…
  
  Read more

• COP26: Australia PM undecided on attending crucial climate summit

  27-09-2021 07:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The coal-supporting nation has faced increasing pressure to commit to a net zero emissions target.
  
  Read more

• Why China crushed its tech giants

  27-09-2021 07:00
  
  After years of breakneck growth at the likes of Alibaba and ByteDance, China is pulling ranks on its own Big Tech darlings
  
  Read more

• London is buying heaps of facial recognition tech

  27-09-2021 07:00
  
  The Metropolitan Police is buying a new facial recognition system that will supercharge its surveillance technology capabilities
  
  Read more

• Love Canal: The suburb built on 20,000 tonnes of chemical waste

  27-09-2021 02:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a group of 'hysterical housewives' fought to be evacuated from their polluted homes
  
  Read more

• How climate change is making inequality worse, especially for children

  27-09-2021 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children will face up to three times as many extreme climate events as their grandparents, research suggests.
  
  Read more

• Manta rays inspire new device to filter microplastics

  27-09-2021 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wastewater plants release microplastics into the environment, but could manta rays hold the key to a solution?
  
  Read more

Follow @scitech_UK on Twitter!